rob
mclennan
$3
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This is how a skein of ghosts appears in your inbox,
seawater spills, memory lines lie
still, sleep well,
float above the silence,
someone born and not yet
far too easy to get lost; upon this earth,
we singe and shrivel verbal,
alchemist
a bleeding sun, we absent-minded
sway like ink spots, tarnished; several times,
surrounding fidgets, green; mute, if
we could manage,
for the little sake, your
quick face, sharks
the creeping revelations, cloud and
cluster,
forms of warmth, calendar-belief,
take; a moment to respond,
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
December 2012
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
The italicized
lines are borrowed from Toronto writer Sarah Pinder [her self-portrait above]’s chapbook, Obsolete
Objects in the Literary Imagination (Toronto ON: bits of string, 2011),
obviously owing a subsequent debt as well to Robert Duncan’s “A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar” (1958).
Born
in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives
in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and
non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections Songs for little sleep, (obvious
epiphanies press, 2012), grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2012), A
(short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011), Glengarry (Talonbooks,
2011) and kate street (Moira, 2011), and a second novel, missing
persons (2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press,
Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review (www.ottawater.com/garneaureview),
seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds)
and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (www.ottawater.com). He
spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the
University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and
other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com
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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