Ben Ladouceur
second printing!
$4
There was a rock rumoured to grow
one inch every year.
It was a letdown.
The heath once housed
a witch
but then they built the church
so she became some nightjars
and took off.
It’s something we do
in the countryside.
We don’t grow a great deal
and depart
when the birds we’re made of
have had enough.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2014
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Ben Ladouceur is the recipient of the 2013 Earle Birney Poetry Prize. His work has been featured in The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, Dragnet, Best Canadian Poetry 2013, and many other magazines and anthologies. Other chapbooks include: Nuuk, In/Words, 2008; Mutt, Odourless Press, 2011; Impossibly Handsome, Ferno House, 2013; and Poem About The Train, Apt. 9 Press, forthcoming in 2014.
The first printing of LIME KILN QUAY ROAD was in 2011.
To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
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