Slight of Hand

Simon Turner

 

 

Poetry is a kind
of magic 

where you taste my

             tangerine
from the juice, 

smell the rind—

              piquant
              drops 

    across the
nose hairs; 

                               too bad
I've got phlegm back there.

It’s runny nose sea

             –son, 

    and I
              don’t like

    to choke
              it

back

    unless I have to.

 

 

 

Simon Turner’s poetry has been published by Plenitude Magazine and bird, buried press, and is forthcoming in The Fiddlehead and Canthius’s “Whose Pleasure is it Anyway?” digital series. They participated in Arc Poetry Magazine’s 2020-21 poet-in-residence mentorship program and received Carleton University’s George Johnston Poetry Award for 2019. Simon lives in Ottawa, masquerading as a PhD student, and has had four plays staged in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong either at or in collaboration with The Theatre On King.