Sean Howard is the author of Local Calls (Cape Breton University Press, 2009), Incitements (Gaspereau Press, 2011), and The Photographer’s Last Picture (Gaspereau Press, 2016). His poetry has been widely published in Canada, as well as the US, UK and elsewhere, and anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope Books, 2011 & 2014).

double vision (simcoe park, ontario)

lynn river, april
trickle, the baffled

dignity of geese, carry-
ing on as if… & that charm-

ing family group – little girl,
young parents, paper bag

full of bread – standing
where the current

reached

[image: Will swim for food . . . | Jamie Ceasar]