After Too Much Rye the Night Before

Poetry
Written By Julie Cameron Gray

Julie Cameron Gray

The headache cracks open with birdsong,

the pain rifles through the fields of my mind 

with bells on. Blackbirds summon

the sun, tapping out morse code

to declare my mind feverish,

wanting, foolish, thorned 

and full of noise. Now a crow 

taps at the window, he taps.

Dark sentinel visiting

with the news of the day – 

That everything is greater 

than what I am doing with my life,

and the doors of each dream bang shut

one by one through the corridor of the mind. 

Julie Cameron Gray

Julie Cameron Gray is originally from Sudbury, Ontario (Atikameksheng Anishnawbek territory). She is the author of two poetry collections - Lady Crawford (Palimpsest Press), Tangle (Tightrope Books). She has previously published in Best Canadian Poetry, Vallum, Ex-Puritan, The Fiddlehead, Pinhole Poetry, The Moth (EU), Acumen (UK) Magma Poetry (UK).

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