Selected for Poetry in Transit 2009The Fly in Autumn is a nuanced work with an absurdist twist in which recognizable landscapesof North Vancouver quays and piers and harbour fogare sometimes irrevocably altered by waterlight into places of the mind alive with the hundred thousand thoughts everyone collects in a day. Risking unease using language both tender and ironic Zieroths poems range from the cockiness of flight from Dick and Jane readers to insurance clerks and blind nurses and to the