Nyla Matuk

Nyla Matuk is the author of Sumptuary Laws (2012) and Oneiric, a chapbook of poems (2009). Sumptuary Laws was nominated for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award for a best first book of poetry in Canada, and poems were nominated twice in 2012 for the Walrus Poetry Prize. Twitter: @Kabloon

Notes on a Middle Aged Poet

Perpetual Los Angeles, perpetual candy from a stranger.
This is Uncle Wiggily inching toward an exit—any exit.
He’s maximum hydration, a big flowered tent,
ending in an overheated man’s fantasy.
I would...