POETRY WEEK 2024
First Place Winner
BY MADI MORELLI
Copyright is held by the author.
A buzzing of bees on the
11PM 63,
Southbound for cityscapes we can’t afford in daylight.
The occasional tall man in a good coat turns every head,
girls with perfect curls are miraculously warm-looking
in the frosty April wind,
All earlybird-green whispers of spring
gone with the sunset.
Wispy hairs on my neck stand on end
and I stand at attention for the bell,
for the dismissal of my stop,
like my favourite neighbourhood is taking roll call.
This graveyard of winter-coated-hearts is
twitching in its lit-up neon coffin.
A rigorous mortality clings
but snowbells are blooming.
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Madi Morelli (she/her ) is a queer woman based out of Toronto who plans to someday publish a romance novel, a poetry collection, and a play. Her work can be found in Wild Greens Magazine, Spell Jar Press’s first anthology and her poetry account, @musiing.more on Instagram. She is currently singing in public.
