Passion Fruit Season

Two-tone

Mary

Drinking

Uneasy

With

Nineteenth-century

Nice things

Dangling

Will she

Bring?

In the

Moments

Between

We sit

And sing

Blackberries

And passion

Fruit

Season

Alone with

Our thoughts

In the

Current

Hot

Spots

Past the

Pine

Zone

Electric

With a

Midwife

On

Pluto

Before

And beyond

And below

If there

Were

A way

To say

Hello

I would say

Hello

Bob Kotyk co-wrote the screenplay for The Forbidden Room, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, won the Rogers Prize and the Bildrausch Ring of Film Art, and was nominated for Best Picture at the Canadian Screen Awards. His poetry has appeared in Otoliths. He lives in Toronto.