new from above/ground press: So/I, by Andy Weaver

So/I
Andy Weaver
$5

So,
shipwrecked alone
by language
on an unknown
shore, gasping
for breath,
bereft, cleaved,
and cleft,
the charts
and logbooks
floating away
in the sea foam,
I am left merely
words
—but what
is so “mere”
when a word
is a tireless
messenger
of the cultural
archive
of the possible,
eternally
dragging
its weight,
changing nothing
less
than content
and meaning,
the way
a single page
might recall
with a dazzling
un-clarity
the two minutes
one morning
centuries ago

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

Andy Weaver has been called, by his favourite small press publisher, the most glorious of bastards. Both parties consider this a compliment.

This is Weaver’s fourth above/ground press chapbook after Three Ghazals to the constellation Corvus (The Crow) (2001), Other Work for your Hands (2004) and Concatenations (2014).

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com