Michele Burnett

  post-script

                        for Tim

                                    I touch
                                    I am touched
                                    I have been touched

                                                            they are all one

frantically she scans the
newspaper day after day looking for those
gone missing in the
war
faces come to her, eyes looking

                        she knows that he is dead
                        because his words come to her in the night
                        shadows dance on the ceiling
                        the air is cold inside her nose, her
                        throat, his chest

                        it enters like an
                        icicle tearing

Michele Burnett is a poet, prose-writer, sculptor and educator.  She resides in Toronto, Ontario.  She has an Honors Degree in Psychology from York University, as well as, an Education Degree from the University of Western Ontario.  She has taken numerous creative writing courses.  Her writing teachers include Ann Michaels, David Whyte, Stanley Fefferman and Sharon Singer.  Currently, she works with the Moving Pen writing group.  Her poetry has appeared in The Garden Life Poetry Anthology and The Furies (Le journal féministe de Glendon).