Integration Loop

by Liz Howard

the liver of a moose

frozen straight through

a bloodrock I jump on

years before I met you

in Michipicoten, the rush

against my throat as if

it had been my head

in that water instead

of your foot

LIZ HOWARD

was Sheridan College’s inaugural writer-in-residence in 2020. Her first collection of poetry, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent (McClelland & Stewart, 2015), won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her latest collection is Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, published by McClelland & Stewart in 2021. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in northern Ontario, she currently makes her home in Toronto.