my mother asks as
Grandma twines
her fingers through hospital sheets.
I’m planting marigolds,
she answers with a childish
grin. And tomorrow
you and I will bake
meat buns for Christmas.
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Angeline Schellenberg’s Tell Them It Was Mozart (Brick Books, 2016) received the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, and was shortlisted for a ReLit Award. The Winnipegger launches chapbooks with Dancing Girl Press and Kalamalka in 2019.