Carla Drysdale
Inaugural Haiku
Damp Geneva seeps
into our cold feet marching
to protect women.
Stone sky tablet for
black calligraphy of trees
writing history.
The new president
says he’ll get rid of columns
when building new rooms.
The new president
says he’ll protect you from them
and then the rain falls.
The president’s mouth
puckers when he peers at us:
“I love you all now.”
Carla Drysdale is the author of the poetry collections Little Venus (Tightrope Books, 2009) and Inheritance (Finishing Line Press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Spiraling, Public Pool, Cleaver Magazine, PRISM International, The Same, LIT, Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Literature, The Fiddlehead, Global City Review, and Literary Mama, among other journals, and in the anthology Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mt. San Angelo. In May, 2014 she was awarded PRISM’s annual Earle Birney poetry prize for her poem, “Inheritance.” Born in London, Ontario, she lives with her husband and two sons in Ornex, France.
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