The Sink House
The Sink House Home is where the heart is, or, in the case of The Sink House, home is what the heart is. In a series of self-contained poems both prosy and lyrical, we follow this curious and…
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The Sink House
Home is where the heart is, or, in the case of The Sink House, home is what the heart is. In a series of self-contained poems both prosy and lyrical, we follow this curious and engaging affair, which mysteriously coincides with a slow and gradual flood.Everything succumbs to the persistent rise of water: the street becomes a creek bed, wallpaper comes away in the night, sandbags melt, kitchen utensils become silt. Sequestered on a sleepy street in a dry Calgary suburb, our heroine, the House, finds herself embroiled in a stalled love affair with an elusive and alluring Oxfordshire riverbank.
Through it all, our lovers persist, salvaging soap boats and flushing toilets for amusement. Here, the furniture floats, flowers become fish that feed in the garden on vegetables that explode with damp. Intelligent, enigmatic, sometimes humorous, and always enticing, The Sink