The Pig’s Valise
BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP
$5
Facing
home
on and off
snatching a
little rest
before
the owner gets back
we see
the other creatures
pigs and goats
do any of us really
think
we’ll be turned back
into sailors?
The animal forehead
draped with coins
untrue that we know
no need to know
NEVER BE THE SAILOR.
Had something been forgotten
an adjustment a turn
a
final step?
Wires crackle
discharged on a word
wrongly
subsisting
the beautiful
parts of the dance
signaled from below
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
January 2024
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP (BRG) is an anonymous collective of poets, artists, and scholars from diverse backgrounds. Its poems and essays have been published in journals such as Chicago Review, Gulf Coast, and Fence, and in books and pamphlets from Noemi Press (Lost Privilege Company, 2016) and in the Poetry Series of Wesleyan University Press (The Work-Shy, 2016, 2018)--a volume selected by Stephanie Burt in the Yale Review as one of the “Best First Books of Poetry” of 2016. Writing by BRG has also been adapted for theater production by Asher Hartman and incorporated into “States of Incarceration,” a show which traveled to museums in seventeen states in the U.S. between 2016 and 2019. Mike Davis has described the poetry of The Work-Shy as “an archaeology of humanity that should haunt us forever.”
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
No comments:
Post a Comment