Stealing Mercury

Winner of the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book in Manitoba
Nominated for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award.
Winner of the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer.
Longlisted for the ReLit Award

Cayer…[traces] the kinds of fellowship that both produce and are forged by loss of various sorts — loss of love, loss of life, loss of control — and she does so with a delicate beauty matching that of the injured creatures inhabiting these poems.
Kel Morin-Parsons

Why I Stopped Watching Surgery

I take it all back
the body's 
red machine hurts me now
I am no longer brave and
curious
when I see the glistening knot of bone

this is what a knee looks like
the waxy fabric
of skin snipped and folded
pinned and basted, a kind

of snappy domesticity, motherly
taking down of pants, surprise
of white bum
this joint in its wet hole

is this all we can make of dying
this third eye looking
inward?
some sort of
flower so full-blown it shoves its insides
out

A drop of mercury colder than a planet

Review by Kel Morin-Parsons, ARC Magazine

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A drop of mercury colder than a planet

Review by Kel Morin-Parsons, ARC Magazine

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