by Terry Trowbridge

In the palm of your hand
the colour of lichen that clings
to the shady Niagara escarpment
rounded into the perfect
shape and heft to fit in
the smallest cannon at Fort George
and shot across the Niagara River
as a perfect Limey epithet weaponized
for this side of 1812.






Researcher Terry Trowbridge’s poems are in Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Carousel, Lascaux Review, Kolkata Arts, Leere Mitte, untethered, Snakeskin Poetry, Progenitor, Nashwaak Review, Orbis, Pinhole, Big Windows, Muleskinner, Brittle Star, Mathematical Intelligencer, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, New Note, Hearth and Coffin, Synchronized Chaos, Delta Poetry Review, Literary Veganism and more. His lit crit is in BeZine, Amsterdam Review, Ariel, British Columbia Review, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Episteme, Studies in Social Justice, Rampike, and The /t3mz/ Review. Terry is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for his first writing grant.