About the Writer      

            Joelle Barron is a poet, doula, and aspiring social worker. Her work has been published in The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, EVENT Magazine, and others. Her poem, "This Job Ends in Six Months" was published in Best Canadian Poetry 2016 (Tightrope Books). She lives in Northwestern Ontario with her partner and daughter.

December 16, 2012, 9:53 PM

Total Eclipse

Annie dillard

            Part of my own complex interior junk,

            drawing of a motel room in pen; Saskatchewan.

            Some things seem important when you’re

            twenty-two, like remembering the shape

            of an ancient television, or how slow rain slapping

            car windows sounded.