A Split-Screen Christmas, 2018
written by: Chad Norman
The sounds of a doe
we know well, eating,
her fawns in winter brown
right beside her hunger
now catching not only
the green grass still available
but filling with the night
and the neighbours’ urgency
for a season I no longer trust.
All the show from yard to yard
inflatable and whirring, sadly
set up before the day of Remembrance,
more of the annual need
to be the other consumers–
not part of how the living deer
decorate their favourite lawns
to enjoy the real gifts of winter.
Chad Norman from Nova Scotia in 1992 won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Memorial Award For Poetry. His most recent book is Parental Forest, AOS Publishing. His poem, The Shoulds, included in the Lunar Vagabond Collection, part of a time capsule scheduled for lift-off to the moon December 2024.
Latest posts by Chad Norman (see all)
- A Split-Screen Christmas, 2018 - December 27, 2024
- Small Parental Forest - February 11, 2023
- Snowflakes in A Famous Tail - April 21, 2022
