Commonwealth

sans toque after swimming
steam rises from my February head

among the cars
an old couple pivot
to the shriek of a crow

must have forgot to go
she says

I don’t know if they do
he replies

behind the man
the woman
and the crow

Edmonton freezes
solid
before me.

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This appeared on a beer can in 2019 thanks to the wonderful Jason Norman and Blindman Brewing. I have a strange relationship with beer but having a poem on a can almost made me wish my dad had been alive to see it.