Sonnet for Sonnet
I’ll begin here
one arm reaches
after night
thug weight
still dumb, numbed
waves above the lightened
gaze on sleeping bodies
my sister and I
Born looking for
arboreal truth
okay, for a kind of comfort
tell me again about the
prisonwords
budded off my ribs like roses
Natalee Caple is the author of seven books of poetry and fiction and the co-editor of an anthology of contemporary Canadian writers.
The New York Times called her fiction “moving … unsettling.”
The Washington Post described her writing as “breathlessly good.” Caple’s latest novel,
In Calamity’s Wake, was published by HarperCollins in Canada and by Bloomsbury in the US.
She is a professor of English, teaching Canadian literature and Creative Writing at Brock University. Her poetry chapbook,
The Appetites of Tiny Hands (above/ground press, 1997), was recently reissued as a twentieth anniversary edition. A new chapbook is scheduled for later this spring.
