in raiment drawn
woven and white
they went down
in pairs to sea
to drink death’s
own dark wine
and pause in
new blue footsteps
where the edges
are now as always
erased and
linger bathing
and rest and sleep
and in the sky
where the washing
of God is hung
they lifted their
small arms
and wreathed
their fingers
in his hair
James Dunnigan is a poet from Montreal, editor for Cactus Press and PhD student at the University of Toronto, the author of two chapbooks, The Stained Glass Sequence (Frog Hollow Press chapbook award, 2019) and Wine and Fire (Cactus Press 2020). A recipient of a QWF Fiction award for 'Open Bay' (2014), he also has appeared, or is forthcoming in, such places as Event, Contemporary Verse 2, Maisonneuve and Graphite Publications. Aut facere scribenda aut scriber legenda since 1994.