Coming home from Vancouver on the bus I was happy to spot, in among the ads for everything from real estate to debt relief, this poem by Michelle Brown. 

It's part of a long-running series called Poetry in Transit, a program whose name I am sure must have been inspired by a song from long ago, "Poetry in Motion". Oddly, Johnny Tillotson, the singer who popularized that tune, died at the beginning of this month--the month when we in Canada celebrate National Poetry Month. 

I was doubly glad to have found this particular poem on 'my' bus, as the

book it's from Swans, a book 
that's currently on my reading table, a nice way to close off this year's National Poetry Month celebrations.