Pearl Pirie
Toddler
Running her finger over
the memorial stone
singing the ABC song.
the memorial stone
singing the ABC song.
Pearl Pirie is a perpetual inertia machine glad for the tiny creatures of compost of Ottawa.
Pearl Pirie is a perpetual inertia machine glad for the tiny creatures of compost of Ottawa.
I’m still weeding
except where a snail
— that patron saint
of sow weed— trails
and last week’s caterpillar
is already transforming
into a Monarch.
Pearl Pirie writes out of Ottawa, Canada when not being a cat-butler.
We spade in a new shape
for the garden, listening
to the silence in the calling
pondering how the treeful
of crows would look just like a tree
if I couldn’t hear the sound and
missed the emptying upwards.
Pearl Pirie writes out of Ottawa, Canada when not being a cat-butler.