Some early research and source materials:

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Elsewhere

        by Alycia Pirmohamed

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She did not know the shape of

this country-         wide         darkjagged

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bend in the river, rock elm withering,

everything withering

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into unfamiliar, needled forest.

She was searching for the water and the water

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was a heartache tongued by wild deer.

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In northern Alberta, she was a line of crow

edging the unknown,

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a woman caught between fennels of a dream

and long mouths of birch

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Even the key of her body-

    jaggedlong      gentledark-

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could not unlock this landscape.

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Sometimes there is a fog thick enough

to hide the trees

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and she imagined this country unwithers,

becomes a different land,

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where her body is shaped like the river

and the river

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                      is shaped like belonging.

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