Poetry: “I Am Afraid of the Magnolia Blossoms” by Hayden Ward

HAYDEN WARD is a writer and musician living in Tiohti:áke/Montreal on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia Okanagan, where he was the recipient of the Creative Writing Prize. His poetry has appeared in Grain and EVENT, among others, and anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2021.

Find more of Ward’s poems in EVENT 53/3.