Poetry
Where We Drink in the Dark on Weekends
Call it thrill, frisson, that unmistakable turn the wind takes / combing its teeth through the shorn grass behind the school / where we drink in the dark on weekends, / / how...
Self Portrait with Snacks
It’s old blood, not new, your mother reassures you / over a basin of rust-coloured vomit / / post-tonsilectomy. You’d pictured / a more glamorous convalescence— / / endless ice...
By Judge Alone
Don’t judge the way I jury-rigged the birdfeeder you hung years ago. Squirrels broke the line. I don’t trust you to climb up to fix it any more. / Don’t judge either...
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Simon and Vallier in the Tub
Finally, on page 60, Simon (clothed) jumps in after him / and the two lovers embrace. He has managed to speak / the word, arranged in a grammar / / that...
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cenicientas (Cenicienta)
together we are learning how to write in English / i am watching movies on the television and you are listening to the radio as you clean houses / feckless villains of...
Landfill
Smokestack candlestick / Linden-handle check-wok / Fleece rocket, cheese cricket / Racket fleas, temple sock / / Onion beggar, blood-bling / Sling gum, trophy tongue / Grit orchid-scrapsong / Soldier slave,...
Transmission from Jupiter
I made it. Five years puffed like a lung / then collapsed. After so many kilometres, / I thought Callisto would be smiling. / Thought Europa’s beaches would have surf / ...
Blood in a Place I Could Not Yet Understand
It was harder to say no back when Paul / threatened to sue me after I told him / I couldn’t play GI Joe anymore beneath / the weevil-chewed spruce on the...
Semiotic Signs Approaching Winnipeg: General Sign Over Downtown (Now Outside It).
The hammer of judgement on the nails of practicality / evokes the tendency to miss the point of actuality / replacing it with exaggerated ambition of fiction / loather and lyncher of...