Nature claiming back its own –
240 railcars at 27 tons each
unable to stop at the landslide over the tracks.
And Gagnon dead in the Moisie –
found by divers two days later.
Prose, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Image by Jim Blake, courtesy of Them Days Archive, Happy Valley-Goose Bay)
Bio:
RICHARD BRAIT is a corporate lawyer living in Toronto. He has degrees in
Engineering Physics and Law from Queen’s University, a graduate degree
in Law from the University of Oxford, and (41 years later) his MFA in
Poetry from Bennington College. He is a frequent contributor to Queen’s
Quarterly. He was the 2021 winner of the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry
Competition for Emerging Writers and placed second in both the 2023
Dr William Henry Drummond Poetry Competition and the 2024 Nick
Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest.