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Kim Goldberg

Kim Goldberg is a poet, journalist and author of five books. Her speculative poems have appeared in Tesseracts Eleven, On Spec, Chimera, Prairie Fire, Istanbul Literature Review, The Dalhousie Review, Prism International and other magazines and anthologies around the world. Her last book, Ride Backwards on Dragon (Leaf Press, 2007), was a finalist for Canada's Lampert Memorial Award for poetry. Her collection of Red Zone poems about urban homelessness will be published Fall 2009 by Pig Squash Press. She lives on Vancouver Island. More info: http://www.poets.ca/Linktext/direct/goldberg.htm

My mother tells a story
told to her by her grandmother about her ancestors
(my ancestors), those clear-eyed Vikings
peeling back the skin of new worlds, soaking tangled
beards in honey meade, roaring at the sight of shore—No,

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© Kim Goldberg

“Visitation” and other poems will appear in RED ZONE, coming fall 2009 from Pig Squash Press.