Born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Jack Devoe is a GTA-based writer and flea market enthusiast. His poetry draws on teenage memories of the Sault, summers at his family’s Lake Superior camp, and time with friends. His work has appeared in The Algomian and The Papertown Writers Collective.
Tremble in the Canyons
From Homefull Country – A Canadian Anthology.
Read the poem as text
screaming incoherently into the winter wind
pulverizing white mountains at her feet
a modern Cassandra wails dire
predictions through city canyons,
a colossus in snow boots striding the world
And I tremble.
warm, fed, clothed,
afraid.
© Jack Devoe
© Jack Devoe · Homefull Country