Bio
Marie-Andrée Auclair's poems have appeared in several print and online publications in Canada-where she lives-and other countries, for instance Canada (Existere); the UK (The Frogmore Papers); Japan (Tokyo Poetry Journal) and US (The Flagler). She enjoys photography, traveling and dancing.
Marie-Andrée Auclair
On the Beaufort Scale
Air weaves around me, gusts and bursts
invisible and strong, that force me to curl
my body along sidewalks.
I huddle drunk and stumbling:
wind's boots kick empty garbage cans
shoot plastic bags airborne, humble slim trees
wind's fingers rake dead leaves, un-comb my hair
uplift my skirt. Wind scurries away
hand un-slapped.