Poetry
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Mercurial
We become each other, twenty-four / years and two thousand kilometers / apart. Hard to care about who begets whom / in a hot, Alabamian chapel, or a northern / Ontario church....
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Macular Conception
The car: a mercurial beast, frightened / by his touch or is it he who jumps? His hands / on the wheel, two stippled stones, sinking. / His feet magnets on the...
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safe as houses
The house in a shaggy field, / long abandoned, unroofed, stippled with moss. / Given back to the elements, / / some kind of ancient sacrifice, / shot through with ivy...
The natural
More peace than politics, forgo the heat / and hostile alkali for what curls itself out of me / / dense as the hardwood, as the closed and tense / fist,...
Be/st Frie/nds
Cross-legged in rows on sleeping bags. When asked, her Truths don’t excite. / They shrug, unconcerned, make fishtails in her waist-length hair. / / But maybe this is why they wear...
Locks
he pulls out a stick of eyeliner, / his rat tail has bloomed / into locks / thick as dark feathers / / delicately he draws / a thin black line ...
road race, Christmas day (for Alex Decoteau)
i. / a photo, 1910. / Edmonton before / the war. / some version / of the same cold / streets. / same regiment. / Alex Decoteau’s eyes are closed. / one...
Examination
In which position is the comb held when tapering the hair with clippers? / a) above the wingspan of a northern harrier / b) below a gifted actor’s sheared eyebrows / c) ...
Cadence, Country, Silence
Night catch in the Atacama / is Brancusi’s sleeping muse. / My dad’s panama hat / is extinct. / / Bats swim face down / swaying in the sea. The note ...