Carmine Starnino

Carmine Starnino has published four volumes of poetry, including This Way Out (2009), which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award. His most recent book is Lazy Bastardism: Essays and Reviews on Contemporary Poetry (Gaspereau, 2012). He lives in Montreal.

Snow Mold

Boot-heel-sized
masterpiece of bottom-feeding:
there you are, at last.

I peel off wet leaves
after a long winter, find your hooks
deep in my grass.

You are a festering periwig.
You are the cutest canker.
You...