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A Bird In My Study
You see, it could happen every day:
a bird trapped in my study,
flying without hope into the bookshelves,
crashing its bird-body against the wall.
It could. It happened today, Amber carried
this bird in her mouth into my room.
Now she is chasing it, knocking books from shelves
and creating chaos and fear. The bird flies in panic
when I try to catch it to release it
through the open window. You see, it could happen:
the predatory cat, the bird's wild fear,
books falling, an open window
leading out to freedom, flight, the natural
way it should be—this could happen, any day.
Copyright by Carolyn Zonailo: www.carolynzonailo.com,
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 The
Wave Goddess |
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| Biography |
| Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Zonailo attended
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| Poetics |
| CZ is a visionary poet who writes with compassion and
careful detail about the world she lives in. |
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| Publications |
 The
Goddess in the Garden combines mystical insight and sensual language
to evoke a timeless meadow where humans and deities play out eternal passions.
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| Reviews |
| She draws on her study of mythology, astrology, and
Jungian psychology, for a seemingly inexhaustible source of imagery. |
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| Interviews |
| There is a quality in her work which makes all her
poems hers, but Zonailo’s style does differ. Compendium
is a collection of short, lyrical poetry; Zone 5 of prose. Each
book is an extension of her poetic exploration and a separate expression.
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| Articles |
| Over the years of sitting in Grant's Cafe or the Europa
and talking poetry with Lewis Gretsinger, the questions have been asked:
why write? what are you saying? what are your poetics? |
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| Poems |
Last Will and Testament
I give my soul to God.
I give my body to the earth.
I give my poems to posterity.
I give my spirit to tolerance.
I give my mind to the future. |
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| Forthcoming
Titles |
 The
Land of Motionless Childhood is a memoir of short stories by Carolyn
Zonailo about growing up in Vancouver, and her Doukhobor heritage. |
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| Photo
Gallery |
 Pictures
of CZ from her 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. |
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| Literary
Papers |
| Spanning the years 1955 to 2005, the Carolyn Zonailo Papers holds, as nearly as possible, a currently complete collection of Zonailo's extant literary papers. |
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