Don Paterson Don Paterson Born in Dundee, Scotland, Don Paterson’s poetry collections include Nil Nil, God’s Gift to Women, Landing Light, and Rain. He… Grade levels 7-9 / Sec. 1-3 10-12 / Sec. 4 & 5 / CEGEP 1 Tags Isolation Outside the Box Mythology & Fantasy Exile Death Eerie Teen Spirit UK Moods Brutally Frank Depressed Despairing Discouraged Dreamy Haunted Hurt Lonely Melancholic Messed Up Snarky Sober Torn Tortured Wry Common Poetic Terms and Forms Assonance Couplet Metaphor Rhyme Rhythm Sonnet Contest Criteria 25 Lines or Fewer Sally Wen Mao Wet Market From youth I was taught that fresh meant alive until the moment you buy it My mother Conor Kerr What Do You Believe In? Do you believe in the ghosts of aunties and uncles that drive old sin- gle-bench pickup trucks spotted with bullet-hole rust, sweetgrass and Billy-Ray Belcourt Leonardo DiCaprio My ex-boyfriend got measurably more attractive and all I got was a dad bod. Leonardo DiCaprio has a dad bod, and for whatever reason this is reassuring to me. Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar Raymond Antrobus Happy Birthday Moon Dad reads aloud. I follow his finger across the page. Sometimes his finger moves past words, tracing white space. He makes the Moon say something new every night to his deaf son who slurs his speech.
