Kathryn MacLeod
$4
Out of Sequence (4)
Warmth sinks into hunger
form into formlessness
children into enemies
clouds into sand
(I carry stories, memories
I’ve lost as many as the next guy
Some days I barely know
my own small history)
Our lives implacably
deteriorate
(I’ve made a lot of
bad decisions, I’ve been
bankrupt, hungry, faceless
without a hat, forgot
to speak out, truth
to power, all my ideals
well-formed, crumbling)
The facts, the laws, the documents
enforce
(and so the world escapes us)
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2012
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Kathryn MacLeod [see her 12 or 20 questions here] lives in Victoria, BC and works at the University of Victoria. Much of Entropic Suite was written as part of her dissertation: Transgressing Words and Silence: Aesthetics, Ethics and Education (UBC, 2011), which explores the relationship between ethics, aesthetics and education using the limit case of art created in response to the Holocaust. Her previous books and chapbooks include mouthpiece (Tsunami Editions, 1996) and How Two (Tsunami Editions, 1987). Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Companions and Horizons: An Anthology of Simon Fraser University Poetry (2005), Writing Class: The Kootenay School of Writing Anthology (1999), and East of Main (1989).
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
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