Richard-Yves Sitoski (he/him) is a songwriter, performance poet and the former Poet Laureate of Owen Sound, ON, on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. His work has appeared in Arc, Prairie Fire, Train, The Fiddlehead and elsewhere. His latest full-length collection is Wait, What? (Wet Ink Books, 2023). [provided for the poem “The Opposite of Combustion”]