None of This Belongs to Me
A new poet commands spontaneous attention. What never existed is suddenly, irrevocably secured between Ellie Sawatzky and reader because of the power of her work. This debut collection follows Sawatzky’s receipt of the CV2’s 2017 Young Buck Poetry Prize and finalist status in the 2019 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She lives in Vancouver.
SUN VALLEY LODGE
Somewhere in my mind, you’ve become inseparable from the old boats, the plastic Adirondack chairs.
Listen, I saw plastic Adirondack chairs long before I ever saw you. I also saw red cars, fireweed, deer
in the road. I saw ukuleles and Amélie.
I rolled my own cigarettes, smoked them
alone, I crocheted poems to keep warm
at night before you, so step back, love,
this is my line of pine trees. This is my
soft light falling fast behind the lake.
Reviewed by
Matt Sutherland
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