A Still Life from the third-floor window in YoungPlace

The white ghost of CN Tower
corner brick buildings
pedestrian crossings and
traffic lights flickering
constant fixturing
the five towering windows
each, divided in two halves
upper glass, a grid of criss-cross pattern
lined two verticals two horizontals
making nine slightly
rectangular capriccios

On the fourth window pane
the skeleton of a huge old tree

its web-like fingers grabbing
a picture of your mother

in the distance

Trinity Bellwood Park

blanketed with coarse white powder

cotton candies dizzily whirling

brewing up another snowstorm

the first day I walked in

the last day I walked out

Published on March, 2019