Somewhere it is Raining
CW: descriptions of traumatic situations
and a man is molesting a young boy
somewhere, a mother of two teenage girls
is staring at the biopsy report
gravity giving way to terror
and somewhere, someone’s only child,
well, U know how it goes with Fentanyl.
But outside our window
night has landed softly
and at last
U are sleeping
ur chest rising and falling
like U swallowed the tide
and though muscles protest
I do not move, for fear of waking U
because,
somewhere it is raining
but not here.
IF’s poetry is a shout-out to the sacredness of our days, a three-chord party jam, and a tribute to the triumph of love over fear.
Along with being a prolific writer of page poetry, IF is a two-time Canadian National Slam Poetry Champion, winner of the Buffalo International Slam, and subject of the full-length CBC documentary, If The Poet.
He and his partner divide their time between Montreal and a cabin in the woods of North Ontario.
