new from above/ground press: Ben Ladouceur’s LIME KILN QUAY ROAD

There was a rock rumoured to grow

one inch every year.

It was a letdown.

The heath once housed

a witch

but then they built the church

so she became some nightjars

and took off.

It’s something we do

in the countryside.

We don’t grow a great deal

and depart

when the birds we’re made of

have had enough.

LIME KILN QUAY ROAD

by Ben Ladouceur

$4

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

in an edition of 200 copies, May 2011

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After a year spent living and working in various towns throughout England, Ben Ladouceur spent the summer of 2010 employed at a youth hostel in the hamlet of Blaxhall, Suffolk. He is now living back in Ottawa, his hometown. His poetry has most recently been featured in Ottawater, Cadaverine, and the anthology Pith and Wry: Canadian Poetry (Scrivener Press, ed. Susan McMaster, 2010). Previous chapbooks include: Nuuk, In/Words Chapbook Series, 2008; Alert, Angel House Press, 2009; The Argossey, Apt. 9 Press, 2009; The Bottom of the Sea, The Moose & Pussy, 2011