Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? A piece by Julian Hoyle.
Rocket
I’m frightened
initially. Struck with
a feeling of doubt
and awe that hits
incessantly, knees
jelly, standing
a struggle.
Flying along the rails
my mind jumps, not
stopping at the stations and
leaving my current world
behind.
And she stands, an idea
in winter boots staring
out at the passing black.
A blackness that we share
for this moment, our faces
reflected back.
Julian Hoyle is a 26-year-old Vancouverite, born and mostly bred. He spent his university years in Montreal and then cut his teeth in Toronto for a few more. He has been writing poems on and off for five years, though he much prefers when it is on.
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