Margaret Christakos
$5
as if repeating the same song is a decent
strategy for building a blue nest in thin air
Nest that has found its mourning in me
Mourning that has turned on a lathe like
a long pull-whistle carved in a small shop
by someone who had no grandchild to
apprentice & lake contains the recording
technology to archive the young gull's song
which is hysterical by now, which is full-out
incessant, turbulent, frightened, hastened,
breath-parched, adhesive, hopeful, hopeless,
hope-filled, hope-gutted, bathed in hope,
drowned in itself yet delivered to
acoustic sky with muscular chest-bobs
& a rotational tour of the bay's gloss /
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
November 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Margaret Christakos is the author of ten collections of poetry, a novel & an intergenre memoir. She performs digital photo circuits on social media to think about the poetics of direct and indirect address. Recent books include Multitudes (Coach House) and Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss & Selfies (Book*Hug) as well as the chapbook Social Medea vs. Virtual Medusa (Gap Riot Press). Two collections are forthcoming: charger (Talon Books) and Dear Birch (Palimpsest Press). She hails from Sudbury ON & lives in Toronto.
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