Polar Bear

Raggedy Andy-ish eyes.
Soulless and quick as a cat.
Silently pouncing. Surprise!
Raggedy Andy-ish eyes.
Unmoved when something else dies.
I had a lover like that.
Raggedy Andy-ish eyes.
Soulless and quick as a cat.

Photograph by Jill Williams Copyright 2005


Originally from Hartford, Connecticut, Jill Williams divides her time between Vancouver, British Columbia and Sedona, Arizona. Author of a Broadway musical (Rainbow Jones) and three nonfiction books, she has been published in such other formal-friendly journals as The Hypertexts, Light Quarterly, The Lyric and SpinDrifter. Her poetry books include The Nature Sonnets (Gival Press, 2001) and A Weakness For Men (Woodley & Watts, 2003). Most recently, her work appears in Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press, 2005). Visit Jill's Website



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