Hope Against

Why say that this rose is the very last?
Others might open before the first frost.

True, buds are scarce and a lot smaller
than the rose-hips storing seeds against next year.

Even faded, though, it’s alive, glistens, a tear held.
Tell me that the end is not yet here.

Mary Nyquist
from Wet Toes

Literary Publications:

Wet Toes (Aeolus Press, 2022) If you would like to purchase the book, which costs 20 dollars plus 5 dollars for postage in North America, please contact the publisher at info[at]aeolushouse.com or me mary.nyquist[at]utoronto.ca

“Uncle Sam’s Strike-Tease,” [rpt.] Cry Uncle, ed. Allan Briesmaster. Aeolus House (2013)

“Without the Law,” Gendered Intersections: An Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, ed. Lesley Briggs and Pamela Downe (Firewood Publishing, 2005), 227

“Uncle Sam’s Strike-Tease,” Special Issue of Resources for Feminist Research on “Women in a World of War and Militarization,” Vol. 30, Nos. 3 and 4, ed. Himani Bannerji and Shahrzad Mojab, (2003), 147

“The Silent Treatment,” The Malahat Review (Winter, 2002), 52

“Struck Dumb,” [rpt.] Violence Against Women: New Canadian Perspectives, eds. M. J. McKenna, Katherine M.. & June Larkin (Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2002), 273-76

“The Work of Nature in the Age of Electronic” Queen St. Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter 2000), 26

“Struck Dumb” in “Women and Education,” special issue of Canadian Woman Studies\les cahiers de la femme, Vol. 17, 4 (Winter, 1998), 69-71

“Bruised” and “Unlicensed Literacy” in” Symbolic Violence and the Avant-Garde”, special issue of Tessera, Vol. 21 (Winter, 1996), 66, 67

“Babytalk,” Contemporary Verse 2, Vol. 16, no. 3 (Winter, 1994), 14

“Wet Toes,” Tessera, Vol. 17, (Winter, 1994), 90-91