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Sita Carboni
 Sita
Carboni is co-founder of Kits Writers Group and Pandora's Collective
Outreach Society. Her love for life has made her a mainstay in the local poetry
community as a writer, reader and promoter of the arts. She has been featured
throughout the Lower-mainland at various events including The World Poetry
Readings Series and Radio Show, Word on the Street and The North Shore Writers
Festival. She enjoys the creativity of authors such as Salmon Rushdie,
Jose Saramago and Joy Kogawa and hopes to one day learn how to sculpt, combining
words with three dimensional form. You can find her poetry in Quills Canadian
Poetry Magazine, luluzine, The BluePrint Reivew and Goodgoshalmighty.
Contact: sita_pandoras@yahoo.ca
Selected Poem:
Orange Flowers
When our souls stretch
they become flat like caterpillars’
bodies
edging through pure soil.
When this happens you could swear
that for just a moment a flame is
sparked
in our igloo hearts.
We stretch like this on Sundays
or lazy afternoons,
let the sawdust of a week’s work
fall from our shoulders.
We feel for each others curves,
mountains, rivers, horizons.
I watch for the flowers to bloom in
your eyes.
The last bouquet you gave me,
just a few weeks ago,
you bought from the man that stands
at the corner
of Pacific and Quebec.
His outstretched pleas reached you.
His body was shadowed by
G.M. Place
where concrete and fans applaud
million dollar salaries
that parade on skates and hold
microphones
while he stands homeless with
flowers.
The bouquet of dazzling orange was
so similar to the one
you gave me on our first date, with
your fingers and palm
comforting tiny green stems,
no paper just your caress that I was
soon to love.
Now I take your hand, hold it over
our hearts,
try to stretch away the cold of the
city,
the crippling effects of stress,
doubts, exhaustion.
Yet, we feel no pain compared to the
toughness
of Pacific and Quebec where hardly
anyone cares
but you did,
bringing me a touch of orange
flowers.
(Previously
published in
Monument.)
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