new from above/ground press: ( Kiln ), by Matthew Johnstone

( Kiln )
Matthew Johnstone
$5

A line does not change, stripped out net for grate, 

there is no country shapes fahrenheit

hollow for, shell, in the wound, is, irrational,

witnesses color moved by another color, lives like place

is,

that heat beaded the accent off, this opposites, we

are poor objects, names out front.

Some clipped by certain pay cloud kept their line for

and to begin others, that years before

were a series of disorientations, my father is hint for years,

deafening, putting iron down the land mapper, that

without considering drunks in the hot ocean.

That a seductive light appears

to feature one appears too.

Hours form an intentional place which an expansive keeping

takes, the arrangement each made each killer of veins.

Once fine through but through fragmentary, them

converge onto augment, branded, wet callus, stay I noise.

Movement is necessarily described as folds

are, the profanity unmuted, peels atop everything, is,

is kiln,

that there is a wound does not move.

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

Matthew Johnstone is author of the collection Let’s be close  Rope to mast  you, Old light (Blue & Yellow Dog, 2010), and the chapbooks o n e (Inpatient Press, 2015), Note on Tundra (DoubleCross Press, 2016), and Eater, of mouths (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2017). He co-edits 'Pider (pidermag.com) and hosts the E t A l. Poetry Readings, both of Nashville, Tennessee.

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