Poem: ‘Caribou’
Karen Solie, 19 January 2023
Why, after so many years, is she with me now?We who were not close in lifewalk among the caribou lichen
whose coral-like low forms, white against the mossesand wild blueberry in its red phase,seem to give off light.
She has escapedthrough the window of the body’s house of harminto the freedom of a truth that will never be recognised.
And indeed they do give off light, fungi and algaein a...