ORCA BOOK PUBLISHERS orca limelights Getting the Brush Off Mere Joyce
To Finn for fueling my creativity and always making me smile
One boardwalk are thinking I know what the people passing by on the boardwalk They’re thinking I’m strange They’re thinking I’m wild They’re thinking What on earth is she doing They’re too busy thinking to actually watch me create I stand in a ballet fourth position as I wait for the three beats of silence to tick by before the rapid drumbeat of Wayward Tides my favorite Maritime punk band pounds through the salty air of the Halifax Harbour I drop my arms and spin around in time with the beat grabbing a brush while I’m still mid-motion The people behind me notice the mass of snow-cone-blue hair piled in a messy bun on the 1
