November 2004
Susan Ioannou
ISBN 0-9732765-6-8
5.5 by 8.5 Hand-sewn chapbook
Coloured endpapers 28 pp
50 copies numbered and signed

:: out of print ::

Coming Home (An Old Love Story)

a chapbook by Susan Ioannou

“Jen?”

Could she forget that precipice
—his voice—and how he broke inside her ear,
drew her breathless down the darkened slope,
rolled her open in the moon’s full light?
The old cool-glass reserve impossible
after. No he kissed. I can’t he rocked
brain and thighs awake to tides that she
never had known, but drowned her will within.

from "Coming Home" © Susan Ioannou

 

Cover Image: Ravenscraig by Ed Hogkinson.

 

Susan Ioannou has published hundreds of poems, stories, and articles in literary magazines across the country. Her most recent books are the poetry collections Clarity Between Clouds (Goose Lane Editions) and Where the Light Waits (Ekstasis Editions), the young people's novel A Real Farm Girl (Hodgepog Books), and the literary study A Magical Clockwork: The Art of Writing the Poem (Wordwrights Canada).

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