new from above/ground press: uoiea, by Franco Cortese

uoiea
Franco Cortese
$5

 aûa

 ai

aau,

aai ua

 ûa;

ûaûa

uéué,

ûaûa

 ui;

 ua,

éoéo,

 ao

 eo,

au au,

au au,

au ui

auau,

ea, ea,

uáuá,

 oi,

ôiôi

ao, ûa;

éoéo.

ring

to copulate
contagion,
whose cause
the rain;
tendons
to flutter,
tendons
to ask;
ceremonial staff
ashes,
nightfall
a fragrance,
smoke dew,
bile current,
I ask
to shout in pain,
to rise, get up,
to reside,
to move away,
to stir and stir
nightfall, the rain;
ashes.

 published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Cover images/design: Sacha Archer

Franco Cortese is an experimental poet living in Thorold, Ontario. His previous work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Capilano Review, Canadian Literature, filling Station, ditch, The Operating System, Eunoia Review and others. He has had chapbooks, leaflets, booklets, nanopamphlets and other poetic ephemera published by or forthcoming through nopress, The Blasted Tree, Spacecraft Press, Penteract Press and Simulacrum Press, and his poetry has appeared in the anthology Concrete and Constraint (Penteract Press 2018). uoiea is his third chapbook.

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