new from above/ground press: I'll try this hour, by Sandra Doller

I’ll try this hour
Sandra Doller
$5

They say Credence is
the best American band and
I am in its pocket now
First of now a first of may I
Decembered poem in the pile
Movember may be better
than June for roasting huck
nuts but soon it’s a line like
that that will get you kicked
out of Johnny B’s in a hot
March may I make a
suggestion a pill is not
my name too bad she said
keep driving the car with
no hands and I will surfeit
something out of it serve
it up good I sung from the
back loud and clingy
hear my hymn

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Cover art by Alphie Doller

Sandra Doller is the author of several books of poetry, prose, translation, and the in-between from the most valiant and precarious small presses—Les Figues, Ahsahta, Subito, and Sidebrow Books. Her newest book, Not Now Now, is forthcoming from Rescue Press. Doller is the founder of an international literary arts journal and independent press, 1913 a journal of forms/1913 Press, where she remains éditrice-in-chief, publishing poetry, poetics, prose, and all else by emerging and established writers. She lives in the USA, for now.

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