Boredom
Minutes slog along in the mire of time dragging their leaden feet like convicts on a chain gang – p-l-o-d, p-l-o-d, p-l-o-d, trekking across the barren wasteland of Salvador Dalí’s painting, Persistence of Memory: melting watches dripping the beads of hours into eternity engulfing moments and eons in its cavernous void. A hand manages to crawl to the next notch on the clock and marks its protest with a resentful tick. Fern G. Z. Carr FERN G. Z. CARR is a Director of Project Literacy, lawyer, teacher and past President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She is a Full Member of and former Poet-in-Residence for the League of Canadian Poets. Carr composes and translates poetry in five languages while currently learning Mandarin Chinese. A 2013 Pushcart Prize nominee, she has been published extensively world-wide from Finland to Mauritius. In addition to multiple prizes and awards, honours include being cited as a contributor to the Prakalpana Literary Movement in India; her poetry having been taught at West Virginia University and set to music by a Juno-nominated musician; an online feature in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper; and her poem, “I Am”, chosen by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate as Poem of the Month for Canada. Carr is thrilled to have one of her poems presently orbiting the planet Mars aboard NASA’S MAVEN spacecraft. www.ferngzcarr.com.
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