BICYCLETTE (from 'Til Now)

BY ROSEANNE CARRARA

Broken by Blaise Moritz (from ‘Til Now).

You’ll never be sure who or what had the power that day,

only that it wasn’t you.

Just before you launched, you saw the wheel,

a magnificent dried slice of apple,

soaring off the front of the bike,

and thought, you didn’t mean to hit that rock.

Your seat, some block of cheese off the face of the moon,

pulled gravitational rights,

and did it for you.

And for a half a solid minute, you flew,

not like a man, but a goshawk,

your white eye-stripe, the supercilium expanding,

even, as you fell towards the solution.

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In a backyard shed in East Toronto, ROSEANNE CARRARA is completing the novelization of her near-future-dystopian detective story, Finder, from Taddle Creek’s pulp issue. Poems from her collection, A Newer Wilderness, have appeared in Harp & Altar, The Fiddlehead, and The Malahat Review (Long Poem Prize). BLAISE MORITZ ‘s art has appeared most recently in Rescue Party, a project of Brooklyn’s Desert Island Comics focused on post-pandemic utopian futures, Plague Review #3 from Detroit’s Rotland Press, and Red Ink, a new online journal for poetry comics.