Poetry Pause

Posted by Daniela Elza on Oct 06 2020

Lovely to wake up to my tossing & turning poem yesterday in Poetry Pause. Poetry Pause is a program ran by The League of Canadian Poets that sends you a poem a day (well, almost, not on the weekends).

Thank you for the sweet and kind notes you sent me on the poem. I’m delighted to know it brought something to your day.

Also very pleased to see the shape of the poem came through so well. These poems are sensitive creatures, a font change is enough to alter their shape and mood. Thank you League of Canadian Poets. Here I am pasting the poem below as well. It comes from my latest book the broken boat (2020). Click here to read it on the LCP website.

POEM TITLE: tossing & turning AUTHOR NAME: Daniela Elza POEM: the rain reprints itself from yesterday repaints a city where objects have trapped the river. a poem wraps around a stone clinging— it says: a woman is walking and is cut off/ /her story comes a/part w/here the poem rips. and what of the man? stopped in his tracks. s/nagged on a phrase. in the grip of the stone— his dark gaze. she steps cautiously between words. sp/lit. lingers in their mute promises their slippery moss. curls up in the day’s possibilities. sleeps in the f/ear of conclusions. in a crooked bent city the small sanctuary of such love what will they toss in it what will they get back— END OF POEM. CREDITS: Copyright © Daniela Elza Previously published in the broken boat (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2020) Born and raised between three continents, Daniela Elza immigrated to Canada in 1999. This poem is from her fourth collection of poetry the broken boat (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2020) which she is launching under pandemic times. Daniela’s poems have won numerous contests and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology multiple times. slow erosions, (a chapbook of collaborated poems with poet Arlene Ang) is forthcoming with Collusion Books (October, 2020). Her essay “But where are you really from?” is forthcoming in the Queen’s Quarterly. Daniela lives and writes in Vancouver, BC. For more info go to: strangeplaces.livingcode.org To support our authors and publishers you can purchase “the broken boat” from your local independent bookstore, the publisher’s website www.mothertonguepublishing.com/page22/2019-new-books.html or for your signed copy directly from the author.

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