Certainly to Dream

By Peter Bloch-Hansen

The full moon

Through my kitchen window

Turns the kitchen floor to light,

No any-so-shining silver world

By day, however bright

When Noon’s squinty eye bores in --

Dust and shadows

Dirt and cracks --

Can feel so certainly right.

So by day,

To scrub away

And away at stubborn facts,

And then by the light of the unblushing moon,

To lift away from day’s stiff tracks

And dream.

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Peter has written poems since Grade Four, experimenting with forms and genres, discovering his voice. He’s published a little here and there, though last year he had two poems published in the Railway City Writes anthology and one of his poems has just been accepted for the Reality Detonates anthology. Until recently though, he’s concentrated on sharing work privately with friends and in numerous public readings: he’s been a featured reader at the Art Bar in Toronto, at a Poetry Month event in ST Thomas, Ontario and at a reading honoring Canadian poet, Colleen Thibaudeau.

He’s written a verse play called A Star Fell last Night, which incorporates music and dance: he is looking for a composer/collaborator for that and he’s working on a book of children’s poems.