Allan Lake
As I slowly cycle along
Elwood canal, overhanging
branches threaten to leaf
my face. I dare them, then
go out of my way to nuzzle
in passing. Flirtation with
wayward eucalypts.
Originally a teacher from Saskatchewan, Allan Lake has lived in Vancouver, Cape Breton Island, Ibiza, Tasmania, Perth and Melbourne. His first collection, Tasmanian Tiger Breaks Silence, was published in Tasmania in 1988 and his second, Sand in the Sole, came out in 2014. In 2015 Lake won the Elwood Poetry Prize.