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Brandon McQuade

Cheyenne, Wyoming

 

Brandon is a Canadian poet who recently moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming. His poems have been published in a number of literary magazines in Ireland, the United States and Canada. He is currently the poetry editor at Montreal Writes, a literary magazine out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

          two poems by Brandon McQuade

 

New Zealand

 

The waist deep field of tangled green—

moss, grass, shrubs and weeds

 

opened to a large clearing

like a battlefield, a scene

 

from Lord of the Rings.

If you ventured, as a child,

 

beyond the camp and over the hill,

to the end of the beaten path

 

in our two-acre backyard

you would be standing, not here,

 

but in some distant, enchanted forest,

surrounded by giant birch and cypress

 

straddling the remote frontier,

measuring the untamed beauty—

 

the forest opening like a black hole

to the rolling green and cavernous fjords,

 

yourself gone, expired in time and space,

vanished in thin air, in this new wilderness.

 

West

 

The furthest east I’ve ever been

is Dublin, Ireland.

And ever since I left,

it seems I’ve been travelling west.

 

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