GEORGE STAMOS

Chezzetcook,

This poem is partly inspired by my memories of my great-grandmother’s house, located in Head of Chezzetcook, a rural community on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. The text is a reflection on my early childhood memories of watching Great-Grammy tend to the wood stove from her rocking chair and her subtle teachings on how to survive trauma. It’s also a Queer matrilineal reflection on heredity and an homage to my mother,

Gloria Clarke (1947-2009).