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International Festival of Authors, Toronto 2013

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Poetry

To A Fat Woman by Her Lover

Wale Owoade

My woman wears her pudding well
ever faithful, ever knowing
one rod and one pestle
her anger lives in pointed fingers
and silent chuckles of grown stares.

My woman loves her lover well
but who else will love her
when she carries the
world troubles in her breast
yet missing so much in her heart?
When her body knows
the shape of shame?
When her thighs are twice
the size of guilt?
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Creative Non-Fiction

A Difficult Woman

Joanna van Zanten

Today a year ago I said goodbye to a difficult woman on the spot where her body was found, head down, washed up on the beach six days after she left home one afternoon. Her daughter of fifteen was waiting for her return with supper ready; her mom never arrived.

The beach was still dirty from the previous fall with a foot-wide ribbon of decayed leaves crumbled up into a mushy sludge left behind at the high water line, interspersed with sticks and stumps of driftwood. An old water bottle that lost its label rested at the edge, half buried; it must have been there since last summer, or possibly had floated across the lake from the other side, like her body.