MARILYN: LEFTOVERS The Clothes a black embroidered handbag a pearlescent Bakelite clutch a jewel-encrusted evening bag with a chain strap a Lucite handbag a clear bejeweled handbag with an embellished closure the same bag filled…
Category: Poems
SUBJECTS ON WHICH MY LOVE DOLL COULD CONCEIVABLY HAVE OPINIONS Being secret, like a leg brace from childhood. Not having anything, to eat or worry about. A bus transfer sailing…
from “aquifers,” two Gathering is important because the human voice taps our agricultural roots and constructs a subdivision of voice that affects the heart of our supplies. Any kind of…
From the id kid. Thinking about the relationship of the consonant to the Canadian poetic aesthetic. From lyric to avant gard, we love dense sound. And movement. This poem gallops,…
Sham Pantoum I believe in freedom. And so, I believeIn freedom. I believe in the policyOf freedom. Police freedom, I Believe, is the course to victory.Political freedom to believeI believe…
BURST To come open or flyapart suddenly orviolently, especiallyfrom internal pressure.The sky erupts. Citiesdarken, food spoilsand homes fall silent.Civilization collapses incolor and noise — andjust a tinge of sadness:burst sunk…
CIVIL You exist but don’t get too excited you exist next to Jersey Shore chain bookstores the emergence of the soy latte as a cultural signifier, the word “unlike.”…
Travel I went all across the country A sense of humor The size of farm animals. or from Third Floor Voices/ Fall 1965/ New York the radiator, the radio louder…
Fragment of Lisa Robertson The Deviceby Benjamin Spencer I left Lisa Robertson’s December reading at the Atwater in Montreal feeling conflicted. At first listen, her work seemed tight, complex – even cold.…
THE EXAGGERATION OF DESPAIR I open the door (this Indian girl writes that her brother tried to hang himself with a belt just two weeks after her other brother…