yasser arafat is dead
damian lopes
$4
converse
clipped
consonants separated
by bakelite tie
tongues as teens
bash teeth
copper lines trace
silent impulses
electronic thought where
synapses flounder on
concurrent waves
confounding
confluence of
influences restrained
over the net
three times my height
i lob & circle
to return my service
conversion if not
conversation tried
tired
concession genuflected
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2015
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Produced, in part, as a handout at the NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival, April 2, 2015 at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Much thanks to Sampson Starkweather his help and support.
http://chapbookfestival.org/
damian lopes is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Barrie, a position he will hold until 2018. After fifteen years of quiet bordering on silence, he resumed publishing in earnest at the beginning of 2015. He is currently completing a new collection of poetry entitled away home and his first novel,
The Mango Stone. Several other projects are in the works as well. In 2008 he became involved with the local arts community, and helped found the Barrie Arts and Culture Council. In his previous career, he published three print books –
clay lamps & fighter kites (The Mercury Press),
sensory deprivation / dream poetics (Coach House Books) and
towards the quiet (ECW Press) – and two online poetry-multimedia works. He is the former proprietor of the micro press fingerprinting inkoperated.
www.damianlopes.com
See recent profiles on lopes on
Open Book: Ontario and
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