Keep
Deborah Poe
$4
The Sensual
Infrastructure
Creatures completing ourselves in limbo, partial
Brenda Iijima
memory
hippocampus
cerebellum
amygdala basal
ganglia
the song recalls a
day
splattered mud by car
the difference of
standing
in puddles alongside
speeding train
a matter of motor
memory
still how the sight
of landscape
harbors time
floral sumbrella
its un-neatly wrapped
end
bodies mutually
exclusive
but memory?
vehicles in
overpopulated city
inharmonious and
contingent
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
October 2012
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Thanks also to rob mclennan for his amazing “translation” of
that earlier version of Keep. His
response to Keep is entitled This, circular tower (above/ground press
2012).
Deborah Poe is the
author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too, Elements
(Stockport Flats), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords), as well
as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press). In addition, Deborah is
co-editor of Between Worlds: An Anthology of Fiction and Criticism
(Peter Lang). She is also co-editing a collection of Hudson Valley innovative
poetry (Station Hill Press).
Deborah’s
poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in journals such as Handsome,
Eccolinguistics, 1913, Shampoo, Denver Quarterly, The
Dictionary Project, Bone Bouquet, Mantis, and Horse Less
Review.
She
is assistant professor of English at Pace University and founder and curator of
the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit.
To
order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob
mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
