Nave Astral

after Remedios Varo

No linear perspective and spatial
depth in this pictorial plane.

To float in the unknowable
is to return to the womb.

What we fear has already
happened. Return

to consciousness. Leave
your skin to the stars.

Voice from the Night Animal

Talk light with me.

I’m here, skimming the green.

Extend my horizon

while I enter you

like a weather system.

I’m poor at multiple choice

but fighting something

releases ease within me.

It’s too late to catch threads

from felt confusion.

Catherine Graham’s poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and have appeared in Best Canadian Poetry and on CBC Radio. Her eighth book, Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, Toronto Book Award, and won the Fred Kerner Book Award. Her sixth poetry collection, The Celery Forest, was named a CBC Best Book of the Year. Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected is her ninth book. Two collections are forthcoming. www.catherinegraham.com @catgrahampoet