Sugar On Fruit is an Untidy Wish If only I could grow upward, I would never drown. A kite rich, penny-pinch. Some salad to suck it all in tremendously. A…
Category: Poems
Elee Kraljii Gardiner directs Thursdays Writing Collective and is coeditor with John Asfour of V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012), which was shortlisted for the 2012 City of Vancouver…
L’ AVVENTURA Softly, he insisted to himself, the peculiar conditions love requires enforce their perimeter. Some quinine slap-take, some shouts across backyards. At some point we find ourselves but that…
THESE THINGS the only witnesses to life are the things in it; the only listening occurs in the objects, gifts or found, which answer with being marked by living. for…
VICIOUS (or, On Dissent) CHARACTERS Socrates Sid Vicious SOC. Wait, stranger! Why the rush? This place just turns upon itself, so to leave is only a step to hurrying back.…
Sense The plots are: loss, gain, or new friend. All man vs. himself. I am in search of who will watch me do my tricks. What do you do…
THE OLD PUNK Out my window, honking horns stab at the drifting smoke from a thousand since-butted-out cigarettes. By my gate, dogs wait to walk, leashed or unleashed. I can…
SEARCH “LIZARD VAGINA” AND YOU SHALL FIND A higher country had a question, a higher country searched and found me, and the name country of the country was north…
Ken Babstock’s four collections include Mean, Days into Flatspin, and Airstream Land Yacht, finalist for The Governor General’s Award, The Griffin Prize, The Winterset Prize and winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry.…
RED CROWN * How a Toronto pigeon sold for five thousand dollars, is delicately inserted into a tube, sleeps, and wakes in new hands in Dubai. * How the butcher…
ORPHEUS MEETS EURYDICE IN THE UNDERWORLD Still limping, she has come. She waits at the foot of the hill, doesn’t dare go further, remembers how it once vanished under…
VISA To detail multitudes we the distance between brow and lip To detail multitudes we zoom To detail multitudes you count arrange by height I weigh To detail multitudes…