William Ross

William Ross is a Canadian writer and visual artist living in Toronto. His poems have appeared in Rattle, The New Quarterly, Humana Obscura, Bicoastal Review, The Hooghly Review, Underscore Magazine, Amethyst Review, Bindweed Magazine, Topical Poetry, Heavy Feather Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and others.

“The First Clothes,” “Telenovela,” and “Cardea Comes Tumbling”

How could they have missed it? Surely there was
wetness and rising tides, juices that rampaged

in spring, stamens and carpels in the garden,
swelling and presenting. A whole paradisiacal world