new from above/ground press: A Holiday for Molecules, by Alice Burdick

A Holiday for Molecules
Alice Burdick
$5

Apple blossom time

Beneath the apple blossoms, people

stand and enjoy falling light and colour.

Also there’s a smell, a scent of future nasal

light tunnels, all open in beams of sound.

It’s a delusion or illusion of opal nausea.

We’ll put it on the bill

of the pecking sandpiper,  a groupie

in the flight patterns of drifting dunes.

Tipping the produce in big fields -

ecstatic ents with beautiful tresses.

I own this road - I won it in a contest.

You don’t get it. Nothing is familiar,

but I get it. I get it right in the ass of light

fixtures. Future perfect lack of conversation.

The one thing I ask for is words.

I just want those fucking words.

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

Cover image by the author

Alice Burdick is the author of four full-length poetry collections, Simple Master, Flutter, Holler, and Book of Short Sentences. Deportment, a book of selected poems, came out in November 2018 from Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Her work has also appeared in many chapbooks, broadsides, magazines, journals, and anthologies. She has been a judge for various awards, including the bpNichol Chapbook Award and the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize. She also visits high school English classes as a “Poet In Your Class” through Poetry in Voice/les Voix de la Poésie. She co-owns an independent bookstore in Lunenburg called Lexicon Books.

This is Burdick’s second above/ground press title, after the collaborative PLEASURE BRISTLES (with Gary Barwin, 2018). A French translation of PLEASURE BRISTLES, by Canadian translator Simon Brown, is scheduled to appear later this year with Les Éditions Vanloo, France.

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