Harold Hoefle
$6
Cleansing
Sweep the dust
scrub the sink
wipe the dirt
from the sill
weed the weeds
taproot out
rake and bag
winter leaves
split the wood
stack it snug
gather chips
finger bleed
water boil
anthill gone
rock raccoons
garden fight
then sit down
lick the beer
pick up phone
view again
mounds of stone
smoke and flame
single mouth
open, close
scroll on past.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
[Harold Hoefle launches Leaning In in Ottawa on August 22 as part of the above/ground press thirty-third anniversary reading/launch/party]
cover photo: Karen Rhodes
Harold Hoefle’s poems have won the Bliss Carman Award, the Great Blue Heron Poetry Award (2014), and a National Magazine Awards silver medal. His debut collection of poems, The Night Chorus, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. He has also published a collection of short-fiction called The Mountain Clinic (Oberon Press). Harold lives in Ottawa, teaches in Montreal.
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