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April
Bulmer has published three books of poetry. She has also been
nominated for the Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry
by a Canadian woman. Her work has appeared in a number of
periodicals including Arc,
Event, The Malahat
Review, and Contemporary Verse 2. She holds four
university degrees and is interested in feminist forms of spirituality.
April is originally from Toronto, but has lived in Cambridge for
the past seven years. It was there she spotted the coyote: late
one night while walking her dog.
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Monday's
Poem
©
April Bulmer
Coyote
Comes
looking for me.
Through
the woods
beneath
the moon as it blooms.
Past
birds who rest
in
their feathers.
Each
heart a place for blood:
not
love or pain.
He
passes my mock orange
and
the white blossoms
on
my May Day
tree.
Coyote
comes
on
four crooked canes.
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