quick ghazal while waiting for kate in the tim hortons, rideau centre, february 11, 2006
the sum of the very coffee, invective cold the scrape of days take winterlude from muddy water to bare bone how every curse at the bus stop a silver shadow a forced migration turns dyspeptic my mutton heart arrows a hangover of trees her william tell overtures the days of cholera & new york magazine covers home is a figure for mixed meanings we wound by how we name -- poet/editor/pub. ... ed. STANZAS mag & side/lines: a new canadian poetics (Insomniac)...pub., above/ground press ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...11th coll'n - name , an errant (Stride, UK) .... c/o 858 Somerset St W, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7 * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
