He started to talk. I thought he was going to give me the lesson about how lucky I was to be going to university. My mother was always repeating it. My father had gone to school until he was in grade five, and then he worked at the local dairy. My mother had two years of high school. She was shipped to Charlottetown, where she cleaned a rich family’s house.
Artwork by David Halliday
Bio:
David Halliday has published his poetry across Canada and the United States. His book murder (Coach House Press) won the 2001 Eppie Award for poetry, while Church Street Is Burning was a finalist in the 2002 Eppie competition. Sleeping Beauty (LTD ebooks.com) is a murder mystery and a finalist in the 2003 Dream Realm Awards and winner of the 2004 IP Book Awards. Trash was a finalist in the Poetry Non-Fiction/Fiction category of the 2011 EPIC eBook Awards competition.