new from above/ground press:

Frank St.

A sequence of poems by Cameron Anstee

$4

your fingers

and where they make familiar

and this room makes more sense

you arranged the furniture

while I picked up boxes

the things we carried here

and their shapes from light

our pillows match your birthmark

the ivy, and the umbrella, and the cactus

from Champagne

yes, we’ve kept these plants alive

and some days we remember

published in Ottawa by above/ground press in an edition of 200 copies, March 2010; a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy (2010 subscriptions still available); to order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, $2) c/o rob mclennan, 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7

Cameron Anstee lives in Ottawa ON, where he runs Apt. 9 Press.