Tiny World

By Rowan Woodmass

The author's début collection of poems illuminates their experiences as a queer person grappling with their relationship to nature, body, and themself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387997299

Book preview

Memory

There are many things of great importance

I need to remember, or my heart will break.

The smell of a horse and the feel of its whiskers.

The breeze on my bare and unshaved legs.

That girl, Claire, who stayed on my couch

and lost her wallet

And lit my imagination on fire.

The breathless feeling of being spun and spun

on the dance floor

And the shift before breath or movement

at the beginning of a tango.

All of the times I watched the sunrise

And the sunset on the prairie, just the sun and I,

With nothing between us except an expanse of wheat.

Waiting for the train in Paris and hearing a woman

singing to herself, a lullaby.

The man who plays accordion and sings in the parks,

Laurier and Lafontaine.

The strength of my mother

and the tenderness of my father.

To always, always trust my intuition about a thing.

That the world, full of shock and short on silences,

Is a much better