Just Breathe Helene Boppert Putting poetry into the social

Putting poetry into the social milieu

with a sharp sense of the threat that these journeys

to the hard moon

the group impulsively takes a road trip to dig up Ananke’s ashes and bring them back to the sea by the hut where Ananke used to live

his daughter - influenced by the ghazal as brought into Canadian literature through the American ex-pat John Thompson in the 1970s

Just Breathe Helene Boppert Putting poetry into the socialexamine the act of breathing from the viewpoint of a mother whose two eldest sons have a condition where their ability to breathe has slowly decreased over their lifespan to the point where they now fully depend on ventilators. Just breathing is an act we barely think about, yet without which we would not survive. These poems are a raw and frank invitation to the reader to consider the emotional and philosophical effects of watching those you love