Sheryda Warrener

Sheryda Warrener lives in Vancouver, where she teaches at the University of British Columbia. Her poems have appeared in Arc, the Malahat Review, Event, and The Believer among other journals, and in the anthology Best Canadian Poetry 2013. Her first collection of poetry is Hard Feelings (Snare/Invisible).

I Am A Winning Personality

“Repetition is not rhyme, missy.”
                 Elizabeth Bachinsky

I am a winning personality.
My personality is Paleozoic:

sea urchin, horn lantern
with the panes of horn

left out. My personality glows...