Stephen Collis
$5
went out to walk at plant pacepublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
long arcing stride of rubus stepping canes
coastal rainforest zone Pacific mists
to berry and behold
if we ever come this way again the seeds were saying
sown on the wind and trampled on the trail
gut carried and shat forward
mycelium inching beneath the forest’s shifting fringe
some forgotten corner of the holy forest
bees’ jet-black bodies and blue iridescent wings
time lapse and our lapse in timing
no future as sure as less abundant being
November 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Stephen Collis' many books include Almost Islands and A History of the Theories of Rain. Most recently he edited A Dream in the Eye: the Complete Paintings and Collages of Phyllis Webb. He lives near Vancouver and teaches at Simon Fraser University.
This is Collis’s third title with above/ground press, after NEW LIFE (2016) and FIRST SKETCH OF A POEM I WILL NOT HAVE WRITTEN (2017).
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