KNIFELIKE Three reptiles crane their necks, watching the shooting star. Consider the infinite possibility of a camera, then discontinue. …
Tag: poetry
Four poems from Dani Couture, excerpted from Listen Before Transmit. LISTEN BEFORE TRANSMIT After Peter Gizzi The connection severs itself due to your finger hovers A pause inactivity of a…
BUT TELL THE INCREDIBLE UNSTOPPABLE GIRL WONDER She’ll never regret starting over. Not how growing makes her arms and shoulders ache, or the weight of the quarter-folded tent, which she…
Cityscape / hairnet At an event people sit in a circle (or is it a spiral?) around Jacob Wren, Aisha Sasha John and Adam Kinner. I met Adam Kinner years…
Sometime in the 1970s I transcribed a taped interview in which Daphne Marlatt spoke about writing, poetry, and language, perhaps the first of her “Vancouver” poems. It may have been…
Manifest Manifest A Spent Thing is, um, Gutting the Small Land. The Spent Thing of Being Together Everybody Makes Is a Small, Old Land, Having to Be Zealous. In the…
FOR YEARS THEY WANTED ME TO RESIST For years having witnessed revolving violence for years skin-bricked and sick, for years the pretty desolation of the morning, its inherent place for…
SAILOR GARBAGE What garbage you are. What garbage you are. What simmering garbage. What are you simmering garbage? Here are the things that are eternal: 1. Garbage 2.…
The Purpose Pitch, Kathryn Mockler. Mansfield Press (2015). Kathryn Mockler’s chaotic third collection of poetry, The Purpose Pitch, irradiates the deep strangeness of our modern world. The collection embraces various…
Montréal, Quebec: I return to the site of an old novel. This will not always be a street of failure, even if still playing the former glamour of the seedy.…
TO THE EXTENT A TRADITION CAN BE SAID TO BE DEVELOPED; IT IS MORE ACCURATE TO SAY IT CAN BE CLOTHED IN DIFFERENT FORMS As three persons in one, I…
and now famine, friend I of course, no living is continuous, we take what grows within we cast them out as though to bloodlet the life of its lesser sorrows;…