for
Christine McNair,
Tell me more about
crayons, contingency
and winter fruit
Juliana Leslie, More
Radiant Signal
1.
Long
held, tradition. Bodes. A swimmer's tongue, a toque. This camoflauge. We open
at the waist.
I
live, inside. So, lost at sea. Orchestral. The middle of a boy. Blind knot,
among.
Misunderstandings.
Limit, some. A twitterfeed. The possibilities of narratives, themes.
To
bring her paper, eat. Long foot, they sketch. Model, cast. A train is not a
marriage.
Immaculate.
Without the aid of, mirrors. Marketing, a greater language. Listen, son.
2.
Not,
out of mind. Poor scowling mouths. Who says, the wind. A street name. Who says,
pour.
When,
is attitude enough. Our midnight throats, a scar. Sweet, swallow. Birds.
Somewhere
between ten, eleven. An organized blur, she vanished. I pictured, sun. Myself.
Split,
into a middle. Term. Arms, through skin. Another contour, wake. This. How, I do
not say.
I
want, vernacular. Swimming, hub of stars. Ophelia, Kryptonite. Sad songs. You,
this youness.
Born
in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan [photo by Christine McNair] currently lives
in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and
non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2011, and his most recent
titles are the poetry collections grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2012),
A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011), Glengarry
(Talonbooks, 2011) and kate street (Moira, 2011), and a second novel, missing persons (2009), as well as a slew of recent chapbooks with above/ground press, little red leaves textile editions, Corrupt Press, Grey Borders Books,
Gorse Press, Free Poetry For, unarmed journal, &then&then, The Red Ceilings Press, Apostrophe Press and Smallminded Books. An editor and
publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer
Mulligan), The Garneau Review (www.ottawater.com/garneaureview), seventeen
seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds)
and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (www.ottawater.com).
He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the
University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and
other notices at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
Nicely done, sir rob!
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