After the Rain
Continuing our look back at early Magpie Award for Poetry winners, we present you with an excerpt of the 2015 winner, ‘Caffe Pettirosso’ by Diane Tucker. You can read the full poem, along with the other 2015 Magpie Award honorees as chosen by George McWhirter in Pulp Literature Issue 8, Autumn 2015, on sale now till the end of March!
Caffe Pettirosso
Diane Tucker
I know the rain has stopped
and the sun has come out only
when through the far window I see
the wind toss a girl’s copper hair, her round
head as flaming as a furnace-mouth.
Pavement most black, lines most yellow,
pigeon most pearly-shouldered now
on 11th Ave at newly bright East Pike.
Read the rest of the poem in Issue 8, Autumn 2015 …
Vancouver, BC, native Diane Tucker has published three poetry books (God on His Haunches, Nightwood Editions, 1996; Bright Scarves of Hours, Palimpsest Press, 2007; Bonsai Love, Harbour Publishing, 2014) and a YA novel (His Sweet Favour, Thistledown Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and in over sixty literary journals in Canada and abroad. You can also find her poem ‘The Monkey Heart’ in Pulp Literature Issue 3, Summer 2014.
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