Title: Put Your Hand in Mine
Description: "Put Your Hand in Mine dips your hand in a subtly humorous, surreal paint pot of behaviours forming the rainbow of social good. An archetypal ego pinnacles in pride, plummets in valleys of rage, triggering the explosion of a light bomb. A boy shooter has a gun&#x2014;his hand&#x2014;poised. The poet recipient of his  ́bullets ́ melts them into lead for her poems. When stuck in a well of depression, a crack is found in the stonework, an idea seeps in to rope up or down. Emotions peak, particularly in post #MeToo interactions where leering at the office water cooler is met with a feminine mask of a smile, as a beleaguered woman grinds her heel into the perpetrator&#x2019;s instep, and contemplation natural, when iconic Barbie&#x2019;s friends, Hispanic Teresa and African American Christie bear unrealistically Caucasian features. You&#x2019;ll laugh when a pained hen berates three mallards. When you put your hand in the poet&#x2019;s you&#x2019;ll be tickled to find wisdom, too, in unexpected places."--
Subjects: Canadian poetry