Alyssa Bridgman
$5
Towers
the physics of towers always baffled me
glass and steel—all windows—all sides
poplars in the breeze bend but don’t break
each branch knows exactly where to go
geometry in all things reflected—except perhaps
in the jagged shard of a piece of glass turned
light means nothing to eyes that remain dark—
looking inwards always and never out
but this natural math doesn’t work when you’re
counting calories and the mirror adds ten pounds
we are consumers in all that we do for ourselves
covetous eyes greedy for that new piece of metal
no concept of cost or what was lost in the hurried
rushing from A to B and so on and so forth
algorithm—I always thought it was spelled
rhythm like a song danced out in numbers
these figures ripple in the sun glinting blind
and we look down to see the sky in reflections
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
June 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Cover illustration/design: Alec Bridgman
Alyssa Bridgman is a Vancouver based poet who lives on the unceded territories of the Kwikwetlem, Tsleil-Waututh, Katzie, Musqueam, Squamish, Quay Quayt, and Sto:lo First Nations. She has recently completed her MA in English literature at Simon Fraser University and has a particular interest in local ecological poetry. Her first chapbook, Hedge, was published by above/ground press in 2017.
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