The first poem in the new collection, A POSSIBLE TRUST is “The City. “ In 2018, PLANT Architects painted it 35 metres wide on King Street in Toronto. At the time, Mark Teo wrote in Azure Magazine.

"Asphalt Poetry, Plant’s temporary installation at Brant Street, makes an outsized impact. A collaboration with poet Ronna Bloom, the poem can be read equally from both the north and the south, and – ever cognizant of its surroundings – is legible to be read in pieces. 

Emblazoned in the telltale colours of the road (asphalt grey and surface-marking yellow), the poem is an ode to urbanity, placed in the one of the pilot project’s newly created transit waiting areas. Like a body’s arteries, the poem suggests, cities rely on their roads for connectivity and survival.”

I don’t know where I’m going, and the city calls to my voices, my limbs, all my uncertain directions. Lie down in the not knowing, the poem says. Lie down in me.