new from above/ground press:

sink in, your oath in the boathouse

to attend, float
a Kootenay-protection

blue sticker glint
connote blue o sh

unenergy is in set
of shoulders

loss is: the sighs up
and down the situ

float where you loathe
in a personal verboten

be the ignored goatherd
wolf spines are every bough

fine. at the promontory of speech
the shifty-footed lengthening line

the cash
sheers

do a task
to a table, pardon –

mean the counter
gruel-cruel the inkless pen

hotel mortifica
shun panic

oath in the boathouse
by Pearl Pirie (Ottawa)
$4

publisht in Edmonton by above/ground press in an edition of 300 copies, March 2008. a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy. To order, add $1 for postage, & in Canadian currency; if sending from outside Canada, send in American, payable to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1R 6R7; above/ground press subscribers receive (honest!) a complimentary copy; calendar year subscriptions available for $40, & include chapbooks, broadsides, STANZAS magazine & The Peter F. Yacht Club.

Pearl Pirie has been published in Womb, 1cent, ottawater 4.0, Best of MiPo Cafe Cafe, by Pooka Press and at culturalshifts.com. Her poetry is generally forthcoming, except when it isn't.
She blogs. This is her 6th chapbook, the 1st not self-published.