Michael Lista

Michael Lista is the author of Bloom, a 2010 Quill & Quire Book of the Year. He is the poetry editor of The Walrus magazine, and the poetry columnist for The National Post. Both his poems and essays have appeared in Poetry magazine, and his poems are anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry. His second book, The Scarborough, will appear in the fall of 2014 with Vehicule Press. He lives in Toronto.

Radar

The bear was named after the guy from M*A*S*H,
The incorrigible troll with ESP,
Hearing as fine as a woman’s eyelash

And a revolving roster of spy holes
That opened onto the nurses’ shower
Precipitating...