Howdy friends. Just popping in to let you know I had a poem published today — in ice!
A couple weeks back, I wrote a story for work about this poetry garden project, which had previously been done on the Assiniboine River here in Winnipeg. The venue had changed, but the idea was the same: to feature poetry in ice, as a fun project (#BeHereWinnipeg) to get folks out and enjoying the winters here in Winterpeg. After our conversation, Hazel Borys, one of the organizers, off-handedly invited me to try my hand at writing a poem and submitting it. I said maybe I would, though I wasn’t so sure I could come up with anything. But the idea, and this year’s theme of ‘renewal’ kept percolating around in my head.
This little ditty, ‘zamboni’, is the result. I hope you’ll dig it. And if you’re in Winnipeg, swing by 240 Tache Avenue while the cold weather lasts to read it in person, along with all the other great poems featured as winners of this year’s #BeHereWinnipeg contest. If that won’t work for you, check out @240Tache on various social media.
One of those winning poems is by my pal Renee Conley from Brandon, Manitoba. She was so inspired by the idea that she has launched an iteration of the frozen poetry project out in the Wheat City. Pretty cool, indeed!