ice-scrapped breathing.
Burnt berry pits; eaten cotton hammocks.
Beneath a slate shelf in low water,
the headlights of bones.
Stalks that move as if there were wind.
Tim Lilburn has published six collections of poems, including To the River (1999), winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year, Moosewood Sandhills (1994), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, and Tourist to Ecstasy (1989), a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in poetry. Kill-site won the Governor General’s Award in 2003. Lilburn teaches poetry at the University of Victoria.
