Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Susan Musgrave Canadian Poet & Writer ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://susanmusgrave.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://susanmusgrave.com/blog/) - Susan Musgrave's blog of selected published & exclusive writing of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, cookbooks & musings of this award-winning Canadian poet. - [Hunger](https://susanmusgrave.com/hunger/) - From Hunger, published 2025 When I go to the river with my trouble, and sit under the big trees, I see my girl again. Her dress is the colour of soft butter. Her hunger tastes of whiskey and rain. Behind us is darkness, and darkness lies ahead. The worst kind of pain is to miss - [Understanding the Sky](https://susanmusgrave.com/understanding-the-sky/) - From Origami Dove, published 2011 The ravens arrived before daybreak, awakening me. I moved from my moonlit bed to the window, my heartbeat the sound a hammer makes striking emptiness, before and after. How much easier to embrace pain than the common miracles of freezing rain, the fires of smudgy juniper smoldering across the water - [Magnolia](https://susanmusgrave.com/magnolia/) - From Origami Dove, published 2011 Another Valentine’s Day behind bars and I bring you light from the stars that you might find your way back to us out of darkness. I bring you memories of me - naked, happy, nine months pregnant tasting applesauce in the kitchen. I bring you the wind, the way our - [Exculpatory Lilies](https://susanmusgrave.com/exculpatory-lilies/) - From the collection, Exculpatory Lilies, published 2022 Good Friday, the day they delivered that sad bouquet, was the day our cat ran out on the road and failed to look both ways. I’d stashed the candy eggs under the sink, in their pink raffia nests, safe amongst the household poisons where the kids had been - [The Fine Art of Small Talk](https://susanmusgrave.com/the-fine-art-of-small-talk/) - I’m halfway down the aisle marked Household Products, trying to recall what I am doing there, when a clerk wearing a smile that mirrors his happy-face button interrupts me. “Finding everything you are looking for?” he asks. This is one of those imponderable questions, like “Writing any good books lately?” that leaves me mentally shaken. - [Just What I Always Wanted](https://susanmusgrave.com/just-what-i-always-wanted/) - From You’re in Canada Now, A Memoir of Sorts, published in 2005 A sincere thank-you note, I have tried to impress upon my kids, will transcend all manner of social situations. “Dude,” my oldest wrote, on a post-It she stuck on the bathroom mirror where her sister would be sure to see it. “Remember when - [Being Here](https://susanmusgrave.com/being-here/) - From You’re in Canada Now, A Memoir of Sorts, published in 2005 I’ve driven to the ICBC office in Masset to buy insurance for my truck; Irene, who sees me coming, doesn’t get the CLOSED sign up fast enough. My insurance expired on Christmas Day, but I haven’t received notification from ICBC. “It’s probably because - [Will Write for Food: Introduction to the Author](https://susanmusgrave.com/will-write-for-food/) - From A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World, published in 2015 When applying to be Haida Gwaii’s new Marriage Commissioner, one of the questions I was asked was, “What qualifies you for such a position?” I replied, honestly: “I’ve been married three times. Third time lucky because ## Pages - [Home Page](https://susanmusgrave.com/) - Susan Musgrave is an acclaimed Canadian writer, poet & editor in Haida Gwaii, BC. Order her fiction, nonfiction, cookbooks, poetry & children's books online. - [Events](https://susanmusgrave.com/events/) - Susan Musgrave travels worldwide, to give speeches, writing workshops & poetry readings. 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