Kevin Spenst, with Onjana Yawnghwe, Joshua Pitre, Gary Barwin and Derek DeLand
$6
This Machine Kills Fascists
— co-written with Onjana Yawnghwe
From sunlight in fall to birdsong in spring,
the spokes of the seasons turn us to tarry.
The cars are burning electrical corners
as fumbling fingers button and unbutton.
The spokes of the seasons turn us to tarry
a tad longer in flustersongs we lob at the road.
As fumbling fingers button and unbutton
the edges of a white shirt, and also grief.
A tad longer in flustersongs we lob at the road
built as it was on the backs of lost species
waving the edges of a white shirt. And also grief
still and growing, in the process of repair –
gilt as we are on the backs of lost species,
we dig creeks back to cradle some survival.
Still, growing, and in the process of repair,
this machine makes animals of our sins.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
December 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Kevin Spenst has made many chapbooks and four full-length books of poetry. He’s an organizer for the Dead Poets Reading Series, writes for subTerrain magazine, occasionally co-hosts Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-op Radio, and teaches poetry at SFU’s The Writer’s Studio in Vancouver on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory.
Onjana Yawnghwe writes, draws and makes little books.
Joshua Pitre teaches ESL classes in Montreal, and is the co-author of Recto, Verso, Chez the Devil’s Printers (with Kevin Spenst, Collusion Books, 2022).
Gary Barwin is a writer, musician and multimedia artist and the author of 35 books including Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction 2024-1984. Recent work includes Bird Fiction, an interactive poetry multimedia work (with Sarah Imrisek) and Muttertongue, a poetry book and recording with Lillian Allen and Gregory Betts. He lives in Hamilton and at garybarwin.com
Derek DeLand is an award-winning design architect, published writer, sportsman, artist and musician. His creative work is interdisciplinary and dynamic, and often locates the hidden energies connecting things.
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