Lisa Robertson
$4
go Venus go vernal go turning go
darling by folding sky by buoyant kiss
by plenty (I lie in bed and read Marx)
by secret breezes twisting, contriving
by boulevards by cattle by a springle
a springald a springet rise agile from
water, go down modern to the natal
turn by rapacious meetings by luminous
flowers-- take with you the eagerness of
my submission to the proliferate
immaterial discipline also
called speech as the political feeling
lusts for public light by engorged
rivers by populated foliage
by veering campus the cry of desire
a morning blackbird in the city entirely
secular and generative and I
can’t curtail my life.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2012
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Lisa Robertson was born in Toronto and lives in France. Bookthug has just published her new book of essays, Nilling.
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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