Lori Anderson Moseman
$6
dismantling the trebuchet
we must save the flywheel
the sling
boulders can be guest stones
in memorial gardens
scaffolding can become ladders
the counter weight?
is it immovable enough
to tether oligarchs’ greed?
an anchor we can corral
on neutral ground
measured stillness
as hope
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Lori Anderson Moseman’s earlier chapbooks from above/ground press include: Whittle Gristle (2025) plus Okay and Too Few Words (2023). Quietly Between, a 2022 poetry/photography collaboration, is available from A Viewing Space. Her experimental poetry collections include Darn (Delete Press, 2021) and Y (Operating System, 2019). For her earlier prose poems see Full Quiver (Propolis Press, 2015) and Flash Mob (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016). She lives on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people whose descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon.
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