Standing in the Flock of Connections
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Heather Cadsby
Heather Cadsby was born in Belleville, Ontario and moved to Toronto at a young age. She obtained a BA degree from McMaster University and taught elementary school for a number of years. In the 1980s she helped organize poetry readings at the Axle-Tree Coffee House in Toronto. A co-founder of the poetry press Wolsak and Wynn, she has recently served as a director of the Art Bar Poetry Series.
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Standing in the Flock of Connections - Heather Cadsby
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Our shadows were moving ahead of us
Who is butterfly?
I’ve never clasped my name
the way a monarch does.
Or been named after.
This insect with no backbone
resembles me in other ways.
I have laid four hundred eggs in the past.
Two fertilized.
I was smaller than my mate,
found glory in the morning
with my many body parts
and sore shoulders.
I was jealous of wings
that flew her into my house
to steal my milk (myth #1).
(She tastes bad to some.)
Seeing her moving in a gang
meant imminent war (myth #2).
In the Middle Ages, people didn’t fly.
At stages of belly stretch
I said she sheds so easily.
Layers discarded. I’m fussing.
We all have our little commotions,
finding a bite to eat,
a straw for drinking.
Waxmakers and masons
They do it all, these women
who’ve been nurses and fanners.
In divisions of labour, they’ve done every job,
are perfectly suited to votes and decisions.
They have no quarrel with the few gorgeous men
who can’t take the winters here.
They are soon dead and left
in a pile at the door.
No hour is wasted. Each gesture heroic.
A figure-eight skater describes a nectar source
or a possible new home
if the din gets too much.
Then it’s the old royal lady who leaves
with some waiters and maids.
A young beauty inherits the castle
and the