{"id":10969,"date":"2022-03-02T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/january-2022-winner-award-of-awesomeness\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:18:55","slug":"have-considered-by-melanie-brannagan-frederiksen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/have-considered-by-melanie-brannagan-frederiksen\/","title":{"rendered":"have considered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
after Phyllis Webb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/em>the first lesson:\n\nknow the currents of the river like you know your veins\nwithout entering the river.\n\nyou wrestle hydra every night. each head\nspits your mother\u2019s scorn. each imprecation cleverer than you.\n\nattention-seeking1<\/a><\/sup> is what the police\ncall the unnamed woman. behaviour on bridges.\n\ndoes anyone see your white knuckles grip the railing\non the footbridge behind the bdi?\n\nyour imagination freezes, unable to see a step\nonto solid ground.\n\nyour traumas flow and catch along the banks.\ndebris for the geese to hide. their eggs.\n\nthe second lesson: remember the first.\n\n
1<\/a> <\/sup>Dean Pritchard. \u201c\u2018Attention seeking\u2019 woman arrested, mental health advocates outraged.\u201d Winnipeg Free Press. <\/em>April 14, 2021.acer<\/span><\/p><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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melanie brannagan frederiksen<\/a><\/h3>\r\n                    
melanie brannagan frederiksen<\/strong> is a writer and a copy editor, who works from Winnipeg, on Treaty One territory. She holds an MA (2005) and a PhD (2013) in English from the University of Manitoba. She is the author of the chapbook poseidon\u2019s cove, athena\u2019s cave from Model Press. Her poems have most recently been published in +doc: a journal of longer poems, The Winnipeg Free Press, and Contemporary Verse 2. Her reviews appear in The Winnipeg Free Press and in Prairie Books NOW.<\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\n\n\n\n
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