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National Poetry Month: Kaitlyn Boulding reads Parting gifts
Parting gifts
I found you
a pair of shells
tucked within each
other, wind in sail.
The one fits snug
over my lips
like a song.
The other is the same
shape as your ear.
I can’t help but
finger its electric
folds. From
their cupped
white hands
they whisper the sea.
(How I wish
I could learn
their art of holding
empty, calcified
handfuls of ocean,
& singing
return, return, return.)
An academic by day and poet by night (or sometimes vice versa), Kaitlyn Boulding is originally from rural Manitoba and studied at the University of Winnipeg before obtaining an undergraduate and graduate degrees in Classics from Dalhousie University. Her work has been published in the GUTS Canadian Feminist Magazine, Fathom, The Lyre, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Juice.
The Winnipeg Free Press will be running poems by Manitoba poets every weekday in April to celebrate National Poetry Month. The NPM in the WFP Project was edited by Ariel Gordon.
