When Ben visited
we ate cheese from the rind
and he stored his guitar.
For weeks it lay such that
my door, flung open,
missed it
by mere
mm.
Tonight
on a whim
(ineptitude be damned)
I played Ben’s guitar,
and stowed it further from the door.
PETER JICKLING is a playwright, poet and journalist from Whitehorse, Yukon. His play, Syphilis: A Love Story, premiered in 2011 and won Best Comedy at the 2013 Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival. His first poetry collection is forthcoming from Guernica Editions in 2019.
