"here where I dream that I am right here"
Patrick O'Connell

here where I rose on feet
stumbled and stood up again
barefoot
on the sand pricked with rain
bullets

here where my possessions spin
on earth's carousel
around a sun
that winds through the uncharted
space ahead

here where I learn to master ups
and downs
my parents cartwheeled
into the space
behind



Honourable mention, "Emerging from the shadows"
contest, 2010, The Ontario Poetry Society, Canada