new from above/ground press: a Baltic Friday early in grey, by Adele Graf

a Baltic Friday early in grey
Adele Graf
$5

to cool surmises where house met criteria
we or printer’s they their with
beautiful swelled the yeshiva time
eastern history
escape family later children Latvia

their amazing were killed to met the possible
any there after family and passed
became again front even any there Latvian
wouldn’t he home
what inside prison that the visitors see
in its to it deep mind
a Baltic Friday early in grey

still I the bells shudder impressions
English in Ventspils
that into we will life was
could I even
was me a eighth to incomprehensible

voyage for death
family ours gas
could Ventspils and children one brother
time life I record incorrectly
soul at a bag worked continually
I autobiography left old enough

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2017
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Adele Graf’s poems have appeared in many Canadian journals including The Antigonish Review, CV2, The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, Room and Vallum. Her first poetry collection, math for couples, was published this spring by Guernica Editions.

[Produced for the above/ground press 24th anniversary reading/launch/party! Thursday, August 31, 2017]

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