new from above/ground press: Hearing Loss, by Susanne Dyckman

Hearing Loss
Susanne Dyckman
$5

Ash, posy, shroud.  The looming shadow grief casts.  Grief as a geode.  Morning, mourning, confusion. An utterance to distinguish.

Deny, decipher, demand.  M sounds, D sounds.   Swallowing air, gulping vowels. Wait for the inevitable.  Forestall.

To spell is to write, to spell is to cast magic.  Tossed everywhere, confetti of words.  The spell is the naming.  I whisper the name, an invocation, invitation.  The need to repeat.

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

Susanne Dyckman’s most recent collection of poetry is A Dark Ordinary (Furniture Press Books). She is also the author of equilibrium’s form (Shearsman Books) and three chapbooks, Counterweight, Transiting Indigo, and Source. Her work has been published in a variety of journals, and a new chapbook written in collaboration with Elizabeth Robinson from Dancing Girl Press. She has co-edited both Five Fingers Review and Instance Press, and for a number of years hosted the Evelyn Ave. reading series. She lives and writes in Albany, California.

This is Dyckman’s second above/ground press chapbook, after Source (2014).

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