Like Lightning

10. Plea to an Artist Worth Loving

Draw me away from this month! Draw me, my chalked remains darkening the side of your hand, wiped carelessly onto the side of your face. Two inches to the right and I might sting your eyes the way that you sting mine.

 

Michelle Retterath is a graduate of the University of Guelph. She won the Sheree Fitch Prize for Poetry in the Writer's Federation of New Brunswick contest in 2002, as well as an Honourable Mention in the Open Minds Quarterly Poetry Contest, 2007.

Like Lightning was a finalist in the WCDR 2008 Chapbook Challenge, the Writer’s Circle of Durham Region prize in honour of Dan Sullivan.