WILD
WILD WOMAN OF THE TREES CRUEL APRIL U OF T
Could there ever be a man more lovely than Jamie Fraser?
Scottish hunk on night-time tv Turns every cliché into poetry
Claire stays with him despite rape by an English captain &
suffering the scourge at the hands of witch-burners
So is it healthy to attach oneself to such fantasy? Blue light of tv
+caramel glow of anejo addles the brain As Jamie’s brogue plays
hard +fast with a girl’s will to live in a place where: on her birthday
in late April it sleeted+snowed +the wind licked her most ferociously
She came to rest in the trees on Philosopher’s Walk U of T You’ll find
her there still when the cherry trees bloom in blossoms as pale as her
brand new white shoes wings
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Emily Carr D’sonoqua
Wild Woman Of The Trees
Spring 2015
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