L.M. Montgomery Found Poem in swamp pink

I'm delighted to share that I have an L.M. Montgomery found poem in the new issue of swamp pink! "Uncomfortable Depths" was written using a paragraph from Anne of Green Gables and was one of the very first poems I wrote when I started this particular found poetry project. As has become standard with my L.M. Montgomery found poems, the poem is rather far removed from the source material. "Uncomfortable Depths" is a despairing poem and there is very little in Anne of Green Gables that is sincerely despairing. I'd be thrilled if you'd take a moment to read the poem in addition to the other fantastic work in this issue!

Here is the paragraph I used from Anne of Green Gables to write the poem with the words I selected in red:

“Oh, I don’t mean just the tree; of course it’s lovely—yes, it’s radiantly lovely—it blooms as if it meant it—but I meant everything, the garden and the orchard and the brook and the woods, the whole big dear world. Don’t you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this? And I can hear the brook laughing all the way up here. Have you ever noticed what cheerful things brooks are? They’re always laughing. Even in winter-time I’ve heard them under the ice. I’m so glad there’s a brook near Green Gables. Perhaps you think it doesn’t make any difference to me when you’re not going to keep me, but it does. I shall always like to remember that there is a brook at Green Gables even if I never see it again. If there wasn’t a brook I’d be haunted by the uncomfortable feeling that there ought to be one. I’m not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn’t it a splendid thing that there are mornings? But I feel very sad. I’ve just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”