2 poems by Sean Howard

rapid poems (climate change triptych, nova scotia)

summer 2025

down-

pour – new

roofs, sun-

burst. lich-

en

*

pond

lil-

ies,

weeds

choking

*

double-

take, hawk

through

haze

unrumoured (wildfire, from the canadian prairies)

nova scotia, 6/6/25

false dawn –

haze slow-

ly, veil-

ing mis-

t

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Sean Howard is the author of seven collections of poetry in Canada, most recently Overlays: Scored Poems (Gaspereau Press, 2025). His poetry has been widely published in Canada, as well as the UK, US, and elsewhere, and featured in The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope Books, 2017).