new from above/ground press: and so, a vineyard, by Andrew K. Peterson

and so, a vineyard
Andrew K. Peterson
$5

Brighton Nights

For Joanne Kyger

my mother is a screaming beatles girl

aunt gail’s for the rougher stones

cedar    eucalyptus

                soy     wax     amber

sage

& cold toned clovers, crimson 

and still i go    still getting down to

the thirties overnight     better

throw another blanket on       thin

city tree keeps hinting at a renaissance

sunflower rosemary beeswax to my lips

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

Andrew K. Peterson is the author of three full-length poetry books, most recently Anonymous Bouquet (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015). His 2017 chapbook The Big Game Is Every Night was mailed to the White House alongside other publications from Moria Books’ politically-based Locofo Chaps series. His chap bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile, 2011) was featured in an exhibition on poets’ maps at the Univ. of Arizona’s Poetry Center. Anthologies: Emergency Index (Ugly Duckling Presse); The Earth Archive at RISD Museum (curated by Danielle Vogel); and 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD, a collaborative performance project (curated by Jennifer Karmin, released by Sona Press). He co-founded and edits the lit journal summer stock, and lives in Boston.

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