Lillian Nećakov
$6
The World is Beautifulpublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
David Hockney says the world is beautiful. I believe him, because I am an optimist, knowing the average weights of the organs of the human body, knowing, there is a kind of reincarnation, even after you tell them, you sometimes wished you were a boy. Knowing the brain, at 49 ½ oz. Avoir – one thousand, three hundred eighty-nine point 13 grams and a bit more - is generous enough to endure both imagination and crown through the acrobatics of feasts and funerals.
David Hockney’s heart equals 11 oz. His eyes are the word we use for the colour of water, he widens the Grand Canyon as easily as letting out a seam, says the world is beautiful and I believe him. Knowing that lungs {right 24 oz. left 21 oz.} are the colanders of time, cradling vestiges of scree from the mass of one breath {0.5-5 g} times a lifetime. Knowing that there are lakes drowning in the whimsical ether of a tourniquet-wielding junkie-planet, invisible and blue.
David Hockney believes me when I say the world is beautiful, knowing that every swimming pool is a small bit of heaven where you and Fred Astaire are always cheek to cheek, knowing that a body in motion stays in motion, knowing that the executioner never takes his finger off the trigger, not even when the kiss is slower than death. Knowing that Popeye clung to Olive Oyl behind the spinach cannery while the sun parched our lips raw. Knowing that night is coming, like a confession, dressed in raspberry, saw-toothed hot pants.
October 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Lillian Nećakov is the author of many chapbooks, including, The Lake Contains and Emergency Room (Apt. 9 Press; shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award), as well as the full-length collections il virus (Anvil Press; shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award), Hooligans (Mansfield Press), The Bone Broker (Mansfield Press), Hat Trick (Exile Editions), Polaroids (Coach House Books), The Sickbed of Dogs (Wolsak and Wynn), Midnight Glossolalia, a collaborative poetry collection with Scott Ferry and Lauren Scharhag (Meat for Tea Press), Duck Eats Yeast, Quacks, Explodes; Man Loses eye, a collaborative poem with Gary Barwin (Guernica Editions). She has also published in many print and online journals in Canada and the U.S. Lillian lives in Toronto.
This is Nećakov’s second chapbook with above/ground press, after 3¢ Pulp (2022).
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