Glenn Bach
$6
From the waves
between and of the sea. What travelers
are saying: is this our place. Maybe they unfurled
a map giving terrain___TIDES
the mighty Pacific before we knew better
a map revealing
a great dream this is a far cry. We come alive
with streets —who imagined the quality of the places
being built here. Why was the city not like this
the whole time? Our demise in story
after story. The signs in the stars the borders
are not strictly defined by the roaring of these
waters. Open space the shoreline inches forward
of the earth the showing forth
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
January 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
EVAD is excerpted from a longer sequence, Atlas, which began in 2003 as a sound art project but has since evolved into an open-ended long poem.
Glenn Bach is a lapsed sound artist and retired educator whose major project, Atlas, is a long poem about place and our (mis)understanding of the world. Excerpts have been published here and there, including two micro-chapbooks from Stone Corpse Press and Ghost City Press. Glenn documents his work at glennbach.com.
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