Cornelia C. Hornosty (1939- ) was born in Chicago. She has degrees in French literature from Oberlin College, Ohio, and McMaster University, and also studied at the University of Grenoble, France. A full-time writer since 1983, her poems and fiction are published in many Canadian literary magazines. She became a Canadian citizen in 1987and now lives in Victoria, BC. Borealis Press has published: "Voice with Flowers," "Under the Beaks of Millions," and "The Inner Romaine of our Lives."

Bird in Four Parts
The beak sings finds words for silence fills in spaces where longing might explode
The wing flies finds a way to escape offers freedom to the whole body thinks to rise above a concrete realm
The eye pierces sees the hole in the universe where things leak out where we will all go when this is finished when we have seen our last video eaten our last burger
The feather floats, after the collision of bird and building, of heart and highrise, slowly, painfully sinking to earth

Red Dream Cicadas, shut down your machines, a storm is nearing it concerns the cedars in a back garden who sway and moan beseeching the lightning to strike them imploring the rain to cleanse them of all wrongdoing to make every green needled leaf shiny and blameless cicadas, silence your instruments usher in the storm so that all in your realm may be put right: dripping and clean ready for new life, still and luminous fragrant with purpose; let the trees breathe freely soon in the gashed sky, clouds soft as cotton swabs will staunch bright wounds and beckon you to begin again your song of incisions