Blackflies

Blackflies

Daniel Dorman

As many as I kill – more come 
From places unknown,
To find my flesh,
And make their home,
And take their fill.

Inarticulate whispers,
Sounds of hell,
Drawn to me.
A shallow well
Of little tempters.

They land on Luke
To draw my eye,
From written letters
But letters cry:
“Nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.”

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Daniel Dorman
Poet & Writer

Daniel is a Canadian political staffer. He holds an MA from the University of Ottawa in English and a BA from Tyndale University in Biblical Studies, Theology, and English. Daniel is a passionate advocate of classical liberal arts education as a means to understand the ideas which shape our minds and hearts in twenty-first-century Canada.

Photography by Chris Liu