new from above/ground press: This Folded Path, by Robert van Vliet

This Folded Path
Robert van Vliet
$5

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The
gentle wind
above the houses.

Everything that is
new is
not

new.
Heaven creates
itself without doing

anything. A long
river like
a

claw.
A flat
cloud stained like

a bloody liver.
What else
but

this
can any
of it mean?

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Robert van Vliet’s poetry has appeared in The Sixth Chamber Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Wine Cellar Press, Selcouth Station, Eunoia Review, Guesthouse, Otoliths, and elsewhere. He has been, among other things, a typographer, a singer/songwriter, a repair technician for Macintosh computers, a process designer, and a tutor & substitute teacher for middle school & high school. His first book, Vessels, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2024. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with his wife, Ana. His website is robertvanvliet.com.

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