Bates-Hardy - House of Mystery
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Kelley Jo Burke, playwright and author of Charming and Rose and The Selkie Wife Bates-Hardy uses the mystic, animal-human hybrid of the mermaid to examine themes like the body, femininity, dual states and fairy tales. Bates-Hardy is a contemplative poet with a keen sense of paradox. Sea Foam urges us to breathe beneath the surface of normal life and inhale the language of the fantastic, transforming the mundane into the surreal. Devin Pacholik, Vice columnist
Cover artwork 2016 by Erik Mohr
Cover design 2016 by Samantha Beiko
Interior design 2016 by David Bigham & Samantha Beiko All Rights Reserved. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Bates-Hardy, Courtney, author
House of mystery / Courtney Bates-Hardy. Poems.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77148-403-9 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-77148-404-6 (pdf) I. Title.
Published with the generous assistance of the Ontario Arts Council.
Siren Undine Letter of the Mermaid Captive Siren = Pool Human Perfection A Mermaid in Love with the Sun Three Girls II. Hating Cinderella Midnight The Step-Sister Speaks The Birth of Beauty The Good People Beauty, Sleeping Red I Red II Father Ocean Ivory Tower m Jacks Forgotten Sister Diamonds and Toads The Word and the Wing Meditations on Yellow III. Origin Story House of Mystery Origin Story Bedtime Alice Donkeyskin Eclipse Dorothy Romantic Comedy Office Girl Working Woman Camping Wolf Princess Lessons Not Like Fairy Tales Upon Marriage Snow White Leaves I Understand You, Step-Mother After Ever After Ogress Dishes Witch I Witch II Wendy Mother-Witch Grandmother Red Swing Set
While I wait, theres a persuasive terror to these words drawing me out of this room, away from this table and my damned impotent lines. Yet your breath lures. Your voice. Mine. Is all I can see on this weak paper. Already plotting out two-word worlds imagined but aborted.
They hang in the air like my own personal mene mene tekel upharsin. What we need is a dreaming voice to bring us to ourselves. With love, la sirenetta.
If you responded, I would leave this rock behind. I know what comes next: lashed to the mast, you will not yield.
There is something wrong with tearing our fin in two on the path to equals, they tell us. If they had their way, wed slip the knife in and let our feet splash with blood. In a world full of me, where is you? Perhaps our definitions need to be revised. Fairy Tale = a hovel at the edge of town where children learn nothing but lies. Bread crumbs wont lead them home. Little Mermaid = a fish in the sea who cannot cry or grant wishes as she writhes on a hook.
Choice puts our first skin aside and gains someone else. Do we know how to touch that foaming wave when it brushes our lips or do we slap it away, burst into water drops? Fairy Tale = a house in the woods where our children die from selfishness, only finding a way upon the sacrifice of bread crumbs. Little Mermaid = a girl who chooses to let a groom live, for we find that fulfillment floats out of our skin. One is equal and one is not equal to.
The pool walls fade until only blue surrounds me. The black drain in the centre of the deep is my escape; if I can reach it, I know it will open a door to the ocean. But my chest cramps and bubbles escape my mouth, betraying me to the silent water. My legs move as one. I rise with a flicker at the edge of my eyes, which, if I had turned fast enough, might have been a tail.
I saw a clear bulb in the blur
and, terrified, breathed in
the potent seawater,
although remembering,
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