Peter Carl Anderson
$6
CONCEPTION
We could not conceive of such a thing and yet it came to be, carrying its own luggage with it. A tray of seedlings from the windowsill of a past life, flowers of reincarnation blooming but once a century. The desert deep inside us waits for an opening in the conversation to spread across the landscape and soak up rivers until the fish are left nowhere to spawn. Each day’s count less than the day before. Numbers falling like dandruff. We try to understand but we’re like one-armed backstrokers swimming in circles. Maybe a rise in screen time is yoking us to a downward trend. Maybe our underwear’s too tight, our cycles not monthly enough. We adopt an air of resignation, bury our miscarried explanations and try to look satisfied.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2026
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Cover design: S. Grand Black / Alias Ink
Peter Carl Anderson is an actor and writer, author of the chapbook Indistinct Chatter & Character Breakdown (our teeth imprint) and a finalist in the 2023 Raven Chapbook contest. He has written more than twenty plays, available on the Canadian Play Outlet, and is the recipient of multiple awards for his acting and playwriting. He lives in Vancouver with his wife, artist and playwright Melody Anderson.
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