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For National Poetry Month, we’re sharing poems from the shortlisted collections for the Alberta Reads Book Club. Today’s Monday Poems are selections from David Groulx’s From Turtle Island to Gaza. This collection is an expression of solidarity with the people of Palestine and contains a message of hope for colonized peoples. Groulx’s brief, yet powerful poems ground the abstract issues of colonization into heartfelt human terms and remind readers that colonialism is not a historic concept, it is a current reality.
2.0
I am wearing
a blue line
across the desert sky
I braid the light
across the desert earth
3.0
We are like the
wholeness of the sun
the light sinks
into the
earth.
Ritual
Remains.
3.3
The spring is always
clouded
with snow
ah, the dust
of an angry
bolt
faithful
to bring
weeping.
Excerpts from From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx (Athabasca University Press 2019)
David Groulx lives in Vanier, Ontario. His poetry has appeared in over 160 publications in 16 countries. He is the author of 13 books of poetry including Wabigoon River Poems (Kegedonce 2015) and The Windigo Chronicles (BookLand Press 2016). His work has appeared most recently in Contemporary Verse 2, Transmotion, The Muse, Rabbit: A Journal for Non-Fiction Poetry, and The Stonecoast Review.
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David Groulx 
Published: Apr 30, 2019 by Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 9781771992619
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