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01/2021 – the wringing heart – Meg Baird – Calgary, AB
03/2021 – Damage – Conroy Dockal – Roswell, GA, United States
01/2021 – Why – Ron Gillis – North Sydney, NS
Damage
Poem by Conroy Dockal
I wish I was a better person
more loving, more caring
I wish I was perfect
inside this box
How hard can that be?
four walls, a floor, a ceiling
I’m
contained
the wringing heart
Poem by Meg Baird
yes, you have described it correctly
the medical professor said
but is it poetry?
five hundred and more years ago
Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks show
the chamber to the bottom left
is housing for a vortex which
ejects propels and thrusts the blood
up through the heart
the organ thus becomes a pump
a living circulating thrumph! of energy
into the flesh
and the mass it gives a twist
in order to accomplish this
pa-pum pa-pum pa-pum
so every heart it ticks along
and what you make of it
becomes your song
Why
Poem by Ron Gillis
Why do I put my woman down ?
Why do I make her cry ?
Why do I put that hurt in her eye ?
Why oh Why ?
Why do I go out on the town ?
Why do I pour that whiskey down ?
Why do I make my woman sad ?
Why oh Why ?
Oh ! Lord it’s time to change my life around
It’s time to take that hurt from her eye.
It’s time to say I love you.
It’s time to stop saying Why.
Open Heart Forgery 
I moved. First to NB where I joined the WFNB and the “writers of Kingston peninsula” And now to Massachusetts to care for my mom indefinitely (Alzheimer’s) What is the OHF abroad!? ❤️❤️ Sara Moginot
Open Heart Forgery limits submissions to residents of the Halifax Regional Municipality. OHF Abroad is open to anyone in Nova Scotia, or with a connection, including people who have moved away. So you’d be welcome to submit a poem for OHF Abroad.