I'm a writer living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, who also performs policy analysis on socio-economic issues for the federal government. I've previously published a variety of prose and poetry. Most recently, my poems have appeared in Euphony, Hidden Peak, The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature and Bones.

Chris Yurkoski

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A Maturity in Tartarus

The more dreams you accumulate
as the older progress you make,
the harder nerves find it to push
to stay atop consciousness much
past the gravity of supper,
and the steeper the struggle,
again, to creep back from awake.