A Season of Mourning
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Frances Itani
FRANCES ITANI has written eighteen books. Her novels include That’s My Baby; Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Published in seventeen territories, Deafening was also selected for CBC’s Canada Reads. A three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Frances Itani is a Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. She lives in Ottawa.
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A Season of Mourning - Frances Itani
Poppies
A SEASON OF MOURNING
for my sister Marilyn
(1939 -1984)
Missed Seasons
I could not have known until this spring
how we lost the seasons of last year
how the days withered from winter to fall
how they dropped away as if we no longer
had the right to them
Our own huddle we unwillingly formed
learning, creating the new
distended shape of fear swelling
inward in concentric rings, consuming
while we were unaware
What I remember of last summer is this:
a single hummingbird trembling at your window
I was standing, teacup in hand
in one of those long silences
we had begun to frequent.
Behind me, you were saying
I feel as if I'm dying
One other thing I remember:
walking down the long aisle behind your coffin
I came out into stifling