total: poems - Paperback

by Aisha Sasha John (Author)

"John is brilliant at communicating. She's also really funny. Poems don't get more direct and precise and unforgettable than this." --National Post

WE ACCESS THE MIRACLE

Through ease
Is the hypothesis.
The task is to source from the quiet

Instruction
And from confusion
The instinct organized

As impulse and
Into my arms as extension.
I walk back to the hotel

With two limes and a watermelon.
Tonight:
Water and watermelon

Author Biography

AISHA SASHA JOHN is the author of i have to live (2017), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize; THOU (2014), a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the ReLit Poetry Award; and The Shining Material (2011). She choreographs and performs in the feminist collective WIVES as well as solo performances (The Aisha of Oz, VOLUNTEER). Aisha's video work and text art have been exhibited in galleries (Doris McCarthy, Oakville Galleries) and installed at Union Station in Toronto (Art Metropole). She was born in Montreal.