Sarah Burgoyne
$4
at the enunciation of you, bloom
of witch broom
autumn. love brocades its long lung game
and lets me in your house. running
the cold gold line to find you,
winters:
a slender limb rushing as flex or bright
animal bough, especially opiate around
the night-mouth of a mollusk or urchin, an opal is you
used for grasping, moon-mouth, aloof, moving
about, your moon-bearing sense organs, vervain (in this, a gazebo)
a light which is the moon (in a plant) a tendril
the night's noon or a tender glandular hair.
a look across the mim-
icking glass, the form which
is sound and pines bursting with ice, my voice
is the spider in your alley, its
haunting shake.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
July 2020
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Cover art: Mara Eagle
Sarah Burgoyne’s first collection Saint Twin (Mansfield Press: 2016) was nominated for the A.M. Klein prize. Her second manuscript is coming out with Coach House Books in 2021.
This is Burgoyne’s second above/ground press title, after A Precarious Life on the Sea (2016). A further is forthcoming.
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