Bad Body

By Hannah Barrie

​Ice cream thick with sprinkles in Regina 
Toes blister
Anxiety sticks to my ribs
Glimpse in a store window     bad photo     laundered pant
And here: a goldfinch. A place to land.
Give me these living skies. 

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Review

By Hannah Barrie

​I sit in the kitchen throat thrilling with climate news.
My body
responding hotly, mind scanning circular,
I am a pointless detective.
This is not the place for hope. 

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Coming home

By Hannah Barrie

​Throat tight with underwater pressure
my shoulders are sticky with travel and I will
go see the sun. 

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​Hannah Barrie is a researcher and writer living in Hamilton, Ontario. You can find her at hannahbarrie.ca.