[click] Photo: Michael Hogan Janice Lore's first chapbook, Ipsissima Verba, was published by Leaf Press in April, 2003. Her work appears in Salt in Our Blood, an anthology of writing from and about the west coast of Vancouver Island edited by Joanna Streetly, and in The Fed Anthology, edited by Susan Musgrave.

Monday's Poem © Janice Lore On Seeing a Corvette with a Table Tied on Top I must know some of the women you have made love to on sweet dustless moonstruck nights the round bed of your penthouse spins around you a knight at night who rides a great white Corvette stallion you pass swiftly on the highway your face averted a grim grip on the wheel mirror, mirror on the wall: who's the fairest one of all? you know the mythic mirror lies: there is a cube van in the blind spot and a            WARNING!         OBJECTS IN THIS MIRROR         ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR            closer to collision fairytales and furniture            head-on