{"id":10928,"date":"2021-10-24T18:14:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T13:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/september-winner-award-of-awesomenes\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T19:48:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T14:48:51","slug":"use-of-the-room-elana-wolff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/use-of-the-room-elana-wolff\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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We were rained out of Algonquin
Park, out of our makeshift tent. L
ucky we found a motelier
willing to let us
ten-to-a-room; the grandparents
got the bed, the grandkids squeez
ed between them, feet to head.
The wall-clock, like a Cyclops<\/p>\n\n\n\n

, stopped to watch: our dreams
tip into twisty images; frozen star
es\u2014yours and mine\u2014like stags\u2019
on mouldy shag; you and I
got the rug, the baby
stowed in the ark of a pulled-out
drawer. At random, like a biblio-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mant, I opened Gideon\u2019s
Bible to Isaiah 12:3\u2014
With joy you will draw
water from the wells
of salvation.<\/em>
Our camp-stuff
hung like outsized tinsel,
wet on a room-shaped tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I\u2019m getting at is people
build up meaning between them
selves and all
the seemingly
random things
…………………..<\/span>that present.
What matters is contending with
these afresh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Elana Wolff<\/a><\/h3>\r\n

Elana Wolff<\/strong>\u00a0lives and works in Thornhill, Ontario\u2014the ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat First Nations. Her writing is widely published in Canada and internationally, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and has recently appeared (or is forthcoming) in\u00a0The Antigonish Review,\u00a0Arc<\/em>, Best Canadian Poetry 2021 <\/em>and 2024<\/em>, Contemporary Verse 2<\/em>, DUSIE<\/em>,\u00a0FreeFall<\/em>, Galaxy Brain<\/em>, The Nashwaak Review<\/em>, Prairie Fire<\/em>,\u00a0Pinhole Poetry<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0Yolk<\/em>. Her collection,\u00a0SWOON<\/em>,\u00a0received\u00a0the 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry; her cross-genre Kafka-quest work,\u00a0FAITHFULLY SEEKING FRANZ<\/em>, was released with Guernica Editions in fall 2023.<\/p><\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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