attempted apology, a sunday morning
   
even tho
i know
you won't
open the door
i will stand here
with these flowers
until the sun
goes down
or your neighbors
call the cops
again
CB Forrest lives in Ottawa. His poetry has appeared in Bywords, Ascent Aspirations, and Schrodinger’s Cat. His short story 'The Lost Father' won an award in the 2004 Canadian Authors’ Association Short Story Contest.' His first novel, ‘Chasing Pace’, was released in 2005 and is available online via www.chapters.ca. He is currently finishing a poetry manuscript titled ‘wounded hearts of the many’, which examines the impact of addiction in its myriad forms.