new from above/ground press: Rushing Dusk, by Pearl Pirie

Pearl Pirie
Rushing Dusk
$5

tromping

along cedar fence lines
the rails, punky, grey and mossed

against my mud-spattered boot
any pause is a footrest.

what stands bleak on the rise
of ground, against unsettled clouds?

crusted lines not quite
darkened into a silhouette,

tangled in long grasses—
a model of use and hope —

the rusted plow no longer turns soil
but didn't risk turning into a sword

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
July 2024
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

cover illustration: Rose McLennan

Pearl Pirie lives slowly in rural Quebec. A queer, seemingly permanently concussed, settler on unceded land of the Anishnaabe, she is the author of footlights (Radiant Press, 2020) and a few other books and many chapbooks. This chapbook is a second published part of a full length collection that hopefully will be looking to move out soon. You can find her on a bunch of socials— Instagram, X, blueskies, Patreon, Substack and at www.pearlpirie.com.

This is Pirie’s sixth chapbook with above/ground press, after the oath in the boathouse (2008), vertigoheel for the dilly (2014), today’s woods (2014), sex in sevens (2016), and Eldon, letters (2019). Report from the Pirie Society, Vol. 1 No. 1, appeared in 2023.

[Pearl Pirie will be launching Rushing Dusk in Ottawa on August 10 as part of the above/ground press 31st anniversary reading, alongside Mahaila Smith, Gil McElroy, Chris Banks, Carlos A. Pittella and Shane Rhodes; tickets available here]

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