The Laundress of Time travels many landscapes. Float skyward with Crane-girl on the 1,000 origami that she folds. Rest "at home as any catfish" in the Mississippi, but know too that this river "that can bring you peace would slip you under its surface without so much as a ripple." Like the juggler's "whistling knives" at Jackson Square, Donna Langevin's images take you with such force that your reality too will feel as "precarious as a tilted house." With her "fragile faith," you are immersed in a "river of souls." Sit in a nursing home with the poet's dying mother craving "raw sky and the freedom to fly away." Refuse to eat anything but ice cream. Drink "rosehip tea the colour of sunset" ... drink in these rich, fierce poems and be strangely comforted.

Donna Langevin is a retired ESL teacher living in Toronto, Canada. She is the co-author of four texts in her field. She has published three poetry chapbooks and three previous full-length collections, including The Second Language of Birds and In the Café du Monde, from Hidden Brook Press in 2005 and 2008. Her short play The Man with the Butterfly Hat was performed in 2012 at the Toronto Alumnae Theatre for the New Ideas Festival, and her play Welcome to Nuit Blanche was produced by Act 2 Studio, Ryerson at the 50+ Festival in 2014.

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