University of Manitoba - School of Art - Joanne Epp
Joanne Epp

Joanne Epp's poetry has appeared in several Canadian journals and one anthology. In early 2012 she served a four-month term as Writer-In-Residence at St. Margaret's Anglican Church in Winnipeg, which resulted in the release of her first chapbook, Crossings, in May 2012.


Untitled
(a response to “Zummad” by Krisjans Kaktins-Gorsline)

Outside ourselves, what do we see?
Yes, the sunset, shadows on the lake,
yes, a thought of movement
in the pines along the western shore
straight as the teeth of a comb.
In the tiered hills beyond, there are bears
(so we have heard). We see the world
as through a wire fence, overlaid
with the mesh of our own minds.
One or the other always out of focus.
Beyond the fence there's movement.
A distant wind shakes the trees.

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Zummand by KKG
Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, Canadian, b. 1980, Zummad, 2012, oil on canvas, 152.4 x 121.92, courtesy of Battat Contemporary

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