What these fragments conceal. Literality. Prior biographical context. Even the terror is. Deer, coyote, stray dogs. An example, of glorious wounds. Place is everything, sure. Cool and distant, an island. Look at me, look at me. Cut off from the world. A book near a pond. All articulation. The river’s prosody, corporeal. What dawn is repairable. Would you make meme. The very body of language. Slight of hand, slur of speech. It is true that you have. Will prolong. Plunges, headfirst. Future tense that evolves into elegy.
TWO POEMS:
“010 : I can lift ten thousand pounds” by rob mclennan
for travels around Ireland, July 2025
above/ground press broadside #355
rob mclennan is the author of some fifty books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. His latest titles include On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press, 2024), Snow day (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025) and the forthcoming the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025). He is the current Artistic Director of VERSeFest: Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival.
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