Peter Gibbon
Peter Gibbon is an M.A. student at Carleton University's School of Canadian Studies in Ottawa. He writes poetry and prose in between being an editor for In/Words Magazine & Press (www.carleton.ca/inwords); his work has appeared in several In/Words chapbooks including Lost Poems Found, Shelter, Qualia (with David Emery), and Illiterati.
no two people I counted four umbrellas in garbage cans today, yours is not broad enough for two people and we don't choose which way the rain falls, it makes these decisions without consulting us. so I must in turn, rub off on you, plant lyrics in your ear, stutter in the gutter down the street, make sure your high heels or rubber boots with polka-dots don't sink in too deep, plug the outside of your soles with my nicotine gum, or no two people, sometimes the sun's out when it's raining, depends on how I feel in the morning. there are conditions, then, I guess is what I'm learning, but if you are a skinny umbrella, I can be a lazy MP3 player, together / we can make the distance shorter |