new from above/ground press: zero dawn, by Shelly Harder

zero dawn
Shelly Harder
$5

once there was a kingdom in the clouds

 

I cannot go there now

 

my mother held me to her chest

 

and the stagger

 

of her breath

 

was the motion

 

that clawed open

 

the duration of things

 

sometimes I watch the stars and they belly dance

 

the moon slinks 

 

things happen

 

tinctures of gentle chaos

 

brutality  

 

bodies melt

 

severe dusk 

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Shelly Harder is the author of intimology (Frog Hollow Press) and remnants (Baseline Press).

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