Theresa Muñoz (pictured) was born to Filipino parents in
Vancouver, Canada and now lives in Edinburgh. She writes about immigration,
relationships and the internet. Her work has appeared in several journals
including Best Scottish Poems 2013, Poetry Review and Canadian Literature. She has been a prizewinner in the Troubadour
International and the McClellan Poetry Awards. Her pamphlet Close was published by HappenStance
Press in 2012.
She has published articles on contemporary poetics
and Scottish literature. She was an Overseas Research Scholar at the University
of Glasgow, where she wrote the first thesis on the work of Tom Leonard. She works
as an instructor/researcher and is also the online editor for the Scottish Review of Books.
Google Page Twenty
Poor
Google page twenty adrift in the internet desert
nobody
comes to click on you witness your existence barely I
in
my third hour of searching for ice wines in the valleys
of
British Columbia you are the product of selected words
wine / winter / BC and the frustrated insistence of return,
return
every
topic and/or search terms has a Google page twenty:
the
straight-backed Ariel font, the calm
blue letters
the
coded strings of jargon and the ever so polite
Did you mean? above the net
of stories from around the world:
how
in Germany one winemaker mourns his unfrozen grapes
as
other vintners kneel in the snow against a sapphire sky,
and
me in the study bleary-eyed at 3am
unable
to stop clicking, clicking where outside the long grass
shivers
and I click alone but not as lonely as you.
poem COPYRIGHT THE POET 2014
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