TBPL Staff Poetry Favourites

To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’re featuring the favourite poems or poets of Thunder Bay Public Library Staff.

Angela Meady, Children and Youth Services Librarian at Waverley, chose a German-born American writer:

I found it hard to decide what to share because poetry choices are so personal but my mind kept running back to Charles Bukowski, an author I enjoy both for prose and for poetry. I decided this gem which I’ve always liked seemed to want to be shared. . . .

Marina
majestic, majic
infinite
my little girl is
sun
on the carpet-
out the door
picking a flower, ha!
an old man,
battle-wrecked,
emerges from his
chair
and she looks at me
but only sees
love,
ha!, and I become
quick with the world
and love right back
just like I was meant
to do.