Published:
1st edition, 100 copies: October 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9868890-5-9
Price: $15 CDN/US including shipping
35 pages
Linen paper, cardstock cover
Status: In Print

Trelliswork is constructed from the framework of the poet’s life, interweaving love, loss and play; the whole reflected and renewed in studious attention to the craft of poetry.    

Hinterland

Not elderly, not young,

he sits in his easy chair,

next to a window,

a light on,

a book in his lap.

Eyes closed, asleep

perhaps only resting -

does he rest easy,

do warm memories

caress his body?

Or does he recite his pain

and measure his decline?

Does he dream

of running  across fields to a far horizon,

his thoughtless body

rejoicing under a broad sky?

Will his mind turn,

like a compass needle to the north,

to those he held in his arms,

hearts beating

against his chest,

whose thoughts

he could read in their faces?

Is he moved,

as a thunderclap moved our ancestors,

to fear God’s mighty grip?

      

       I fall so easily

       into these places,

       where the light meets the dark.

Zav Levinson began writing poetry five years ago. This is his first book. His poems have appeared in Poetry Quebec, SWEPT, and Umbrella Factory. He is poetry co-editor of JONAHmagazine, an online literary review. Zav lives in Montreal.