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Last Modified: April 13, 2021
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Monday Poems: From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx

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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From Turtle Island to Gaza

David Groulx (CA)

Published: Apr 30, 2019 by Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 9781771992619