Mnemonic

by Theresa Kishkan

  1. The lines of poetry are from “Closing Down Kah Shakes Creek” by Charles Lillard, from his collection, Shadow Weather. Used by kind permission of Rhonda Batchelor Lillard.

  2. I found salmonberry in bloom on February 17, 2010, but in 2011, I didn’t see any until mid-March.

  3. Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems, p. 217.

  4. Cicero, De Oratore, p. 353.

  5. John Evelyn, Sylva, p. 282.

  6. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, I, xxv, p. 65.

  7. Ovid’s line from Ars Amatoria, “Silva domus ferat . . . cubilia fronds” (Book 11, line 475), gracefully translated by my daughter, Angelica Pass. Source for the Latin: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ovid/ovid.artis2.shtml.

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  Theresa Kishkan was born in Victoria, BC, and has lived on both coasts of Ca
nada as well as in Greece, England, and Ireland. She makes her home on the Sechelt Peninsula with her husband, John Pass, where they built their house and raised their three children. Together, they operate High Ground Press, which prints broadsheets and chapbooks on a nineteenth-century platen press.

  Kishkan is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, including two collections of essays, Red Laredo Boots and Phantom Limb; three novels, Sisters of Grass, A Man in a Distant Field, and The Age of Water Lilies; and a novella, Inishbream. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and been nominated for several prestigious awards, including the Pushcart Prize, the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction, the Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction, and the ReLit Award. Phantom Limb won the inaugural Readers’ Choice Award given by the Canadian Creative Non-Fiction Collective. An essay from Mnemonic won the 2010 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Prize.