After Seventy Years Her kisses are missing. Call 911. My mother, her eyes, are missing, their colour, blue, Precambrian lake blue, that old, that used to a world, in its spin, its rounds around a necessary brightness. The sun is missing. The purple flowers of the Agapanthus lily are missing. Gone seventy years. My mother… Continue reading Richard Osler
Author: Richard Osler
, poet and money manager, lives in Duncan, B.C., Canada. His chapbook of small poems Where the Water Lives was published by Leaf Press in 2012. His poems have appeared also in journals including CV2, Malahat Review, Antigonish Review, Prairie Fire and Ruminate Magazine in the U.S. In 2011 he was shortlisted for the Malahat Open Season Awards in poetry. He also leads poetry workshops in drug and alcohol recovery centres.