It’s humbling to take responsibility for a literary magazine that’s 10 years old. If carte blanche had not enjoyed a decade of success, a growing readership, creative partnerships here in Montreal and beyond, a deluge of submissions from Quebec, Canada and internationally, perhaps the feeling would fill us with less awe. But all of those things, and more, did happen. Under the stewardship of co-founder Maria Turner, who then became editor, and now stays on as creative non-fiction editor and co-curator of This Really Happened, carte blanche has gone from strength to strength. A huge thank you also goes out to all the other editors, current and former, and all the contributors, who made this magazine what it is today.
In the Silence Between Us
Lonely landscapes. Impossible daybreak. A prayer spun in the darkness of frozen stars. Our hands touching in the dark. That feeling in your chest. These fragments come together, perceived through [More…]
Things
Blades of Grass
O, tonic dreamscapes.
Peach and rose,
palm-tree green,
like vomited lollipops,
synthetic strawberries,
chocolate milk before the dye.
In Your Flames
I saw each of us more austere on life’s path
more worthy than our union
that encased our love in its own light
The snow kimono
The beauty of the not-beautiful
the day he ordered me divorced
the river was full of ice
but those were times of famine.
So you know all about me then.
I came here to escape
The Brewmaster’s Art
I flake away, counting years
In the brews I make. Doughed in
at 65, mashed for an age
fermenting forever, testing gravities
Sampling my creations and finding
each wanting
