new from above/ground press: oh the iffy night, by Simon Brown

oh the iffy night
Simon Brown
$5

ANOTHER SONG OF NO NEST


within the night
another night
and in that night
another night still
will it ever stop
flowers, bombs, fever unbroken
like juice
from any moon
or a lamb made of sticky dust
I dig my way out
I dig so slow

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

Simon Brown (he/they) is a self-taught and late-blooming poet and translator from rural southwestern New Brunswick (Peskotomuhkati traditional territory) now based in the Quebec City area (Wendat and Abenaki traditional territory). His texts have been presented in books, interdisciplinary artworks, collaborative performances, and via platforms such as Lemon Hound, Estuaire, Mœbius, Vallum, Poetry Is Dead, Watts, and filling Station. This is his second English-language chapbook, after this mud, a word (Frog Hollow Press, 2019).

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