Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome Canadian poet Krista Carson with two captivating poems. Both have a strong visual element, spilling across the page like clouds or rivers of words, mimicking the flow of thoughts in the human mind. The first, “pieces of things,” recounts the break-up of a marriage from the viewpoint of a child, images gleaned from experience, random and intense, because “no one tells you anything when you’re six.” They are bright in the memory, like the petals of the gerbera daisy her mother ripped from their stem gathered into a plastic bag. The second poem, “view from here,” a finalist in our poetry contest, explores growing up on the seedy side of Thunder Bay, in the view of Sleeping Giant mesa. Walking to school she passes through an empty parking lot “with amber glass shards/ & splattered vomit” in front of a building with a sign that reads “girls.” She wonders “uneasy about that/ being a girl of nine myself. ” The sense of menace is palpable but understated. Krista’s poetry is rich in alliterative music and striking visual imagery woven into a delicate fabric.
Read “pieces of things” and “view from here” in Synkroniciti’s “Vulnerable” issue, available for pre-order here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Krista Carson is a writer and post-secondary educator. She is currently continuing her creative writing education as a PhD student (University of Gloucestershire). She lives in southwestern Ontario with her husband, daughter, and whippet.