FOR JOE

Our purpose is

crescendo of color

we don’t pretend to

be anything

we are already

here,

fully formed,

manifest, astonished.

POEM

fear gets translated to power

beer gets translated to flowers

I will change

everything oppressively present

into something else.

SIMON PETTET is the author of Hearth and As A Bee (both from Talisman House). He divides his time between New York City and Toronto.