Sex
First & Then A Sandwich
Amanda Earl
$4
please no more poems of
birds. no. more.
or tender little flowers tossed
about by rain
a friend has bedbugs again for
the third time
picked up from a public library.
the danger of reading
soon the easter eggs will spoil
in this heat
all the sweet green icing
flowing down
on the Waltons yesterday,
Elizabeth couldn't walk
except by the end of the episode
she did
you can learn a lot on Christian
television
how to build, a crucifix, two
towers
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2012
a/g
subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Sex First & Then
A Sandwich is part of a longer work entitled “ghazals
against the gradual demise,” which has been funded by the Ontario Arts Council
Writers' Reserve Program & the City of Ottawa’s Creation and Production
Fund for Professional Artists for which I am grateful.
These poems owe their
inspiration to Jim Harrison’s Outlyer and Ghazals (Simon and Schuster,
New York, 1969, 1971)
Amanda Earl’s poems appear
most recently or are forthcoming in the Puritan, fillingStation, Rampike,
In/Words Magazine, & ripple(s): a postcard press. Her chapbooks have
been published by above/ground press, BookThug, Chapbook Publisher, Free Poetry
For, Laurel Reed Books & Puddles of Sky Press. Amanda is the managing
editor of Bywords.ca & the Bywords Quarterly Journal, &
the (fallen) angel of AngelHousePress. For more information please visit www.amandaearl.com
or follow her on Twitter @KikiFolle.
This is Earl’s third above/ground press title,
after Eleanor (2007) and
The
Sad Phoenician’s Other Woman (2008).
See a review of her previous above/ground press work here.
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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