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issue 1: CARNIVAL

ferris wheel season

DAVID BARRICK
​It spins, leaves
afterburn snakes 
deking in the sky

cigarettes floating 
down from windows
of an old hotel.  

Pork gristle skewers
wrapped in flatbreads
sold by the bandstand

a blues trio bending 
harp notes around 
the speaker’s woof. 

At dusk, our hands
move again: stone ripples 
echo and collide--

the duck pond 
rolling up reflections 
of firefly faces.

David Barrick’s poetry appears in The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Event, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, and other literary magazines. He teaches and writes in London, Ontario, where he is Managing Director of the Poetry London reading series. His first chapbook is Incubation Chamber (Anstruther Press, 2019).
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