new from above/ground press: Cupcake Royale, by Sarah Mangold

Cupcake Royale
by Sarah Mangold
$4

Reactions, Vials

isolate your social activities

chocolate with mint icing

retroactively today eyebrows

another eight weeks

she got out all right

meanwhile he might

anyone can do it now

the whole system is fine and good

color coded medications

so your vial is green

or red or white and

you know out the corner of your eye

it’s not physical

combating infection

on day four the second pill

families leave with vases of Iris

pink boxes of cupcakes

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2012
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Sarah Mangold lives in Edmonds, WA. She is the author of Household Mechanics (New Issues) and the forthcoming Electrical Theories of Femininity (Pavement Saw Press, selected for the 2011 Transcontinental Poetry Prize). Her most recent chapbooks include An Antenna Called the Body (Little Red Leaves Textile Editions), and I Meant to Be Transparent (forthcoming, LRL e-editions). From 2000-2009 she edited Bird Dog, a print journal of innovative writing and art and currently co-edits, FLASH + CARD, a chapbook and ephemera press.

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