
Love is in the air
and I say love with cheese...
gruyère and emmenthal
brie, parmeggiano
crocks for the oven, red and gray
a bag of onions and bay leaves plucked
from nanna's garden last summer
a half-baked baguette
and chicken stock & thyme
and while you're on the slopes
I play my music—the same song
over and again but you're not here
so it won't drive you crazy
and as the soup simmers
and I brown the bread and grate the cheese
you come in
smelling of the mountain
you perch on the countertop
and tell me about the lessons
you gave today
and I feel like a mom again
and in this delicious moment
love is in the air
a pearl in this diamond world … Josephine LoRe has published two collections: ‘Unity’ and the Calgary Herald Bestseller ‘The Cowichan Series’. Her words have been read on stage, put to music, danced to, and integrated into visual art. They appear in anthologies and literary journals across nine countries. https://www.josephinelorepoet.com/
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Darcie Friesen Hossack is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. Her short story collection, Mennonites Don’t Dance, was a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Award, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Evergreen Award for Adult Fiction. Citing irreverence, the book was banned by the LaCrete Public Library in Northern Alberta.
Having mentored with Giller finalists Sandra Birdsell (The Russlander) and Gail Anderson Dargatz (Spawning Grounds, The Cure for Death by Lightening), Darcie is now completing her first novel where, for a family with a Seventh-day Adventist father and a Mennonite mother, the End Times are just around the corner.
Darcie is also a four time judge of the Whistler Independent Book Awards, and a career food writer. She lives in Northern Alberta, Canada, with her husband, international award-winning chef, Dean Hossack.
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