Apr 4, 2015
Coda by Basma Kavanagh
Finalist for the CBC’s 2014 Poetry Prize, this was Basma’s third installment in her into her suite of poems examining the world bringing itself back from the brink after the disappearance of its most destructive species.
3. Ocean dwellers will recall a nightmare time long past. On desolate beaches, wasps will chew old nets and wooden traps to mush, sculpt palatial nests with little disruption, mouthful by mouthful.
The sleek coyotes will call the last dogs into the woods and devour them. Cats will creep into the trees to dwell, and the house sparrows— houseless—dwindle.