Parapagus
(a poem in
ten parts)
Roland
Prevost
$4
[ censorship confers ] x { prehistory }We are reduced to call upon the eye and ear.A backfield dig unearths two gleaming pre-humanSkulls. Scattered artefacts lie between them.Hard dirt under cracked fingernails: dark, dry.Comparisons of brain cavities, occipital angles,Jawbones. To them we’d seem: Graceful.Fragile. Nervous. Perceptive. Even when theyLived, sheathed in silence, their eloquent toolsSpoke necessities for them, as still now.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
December 2012
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Roland Prevost’s poetry appears in Arc poetry magazine, Descant Magazine,
Ottawa Arts Review, Peter F. Yacht Club, Ottawater
(online), among others. He has three previous chapbooks: Metafizz (2007,
Bywords), Dragon Verses (2009, Dusty Owl), Our/ Are Carried
Invisibles (2009, above/ground). He’s also been published in two poetry
collections by Amanda Earl’s AngelHousePress, Whack of Clouds (2008) and
Pent Up (2009). Roland won the 2006 John Newlove Poetry Award. He was,
for a few years, the managing editor of 17 seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics, as well as poetics.ca, both online. He studied English and
Psychology at York University and the University of Manitoba. He lives, writes
poetry, short stories, a lifelong journal, composes and records songs, and
peers through telescopes in Ottawa.
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