rob mclennan lives in Ottawa, even though he was born there. The author of over a dozen trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he is spending the 2007-8 academic year as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta. The editor/publisher of Chaudiere Books, Poetics.ca (with Stephen Brockwell), above/ground press, and ottawater, his online home is robmclennan.blogspot.com from solids, or, strike-out (a suite)
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I know nothing of eden but the lack of parties would have probably
killed me
I am looking back on eating an apple
the conductor is clear as the sky
the texture squeaks of the curds on my coloured teeth
everything credits to a lack of understatement
poem (three dog night)
I stand a urinals chance away
we fall in & out of step
the dog at the end of the street barks at nothing
who am I to suggest
the house is much bigger than the shed
a corollary
the squeak of the cart is like a mouse
the tension that pulls us apart & holds
I am studying the window the horizon
a buddhist phrase of corn is not profound
I am destination more than I am willing
I am left w/ song & water paving
the same ground; covered
fire
proofing it right
the sequence of events is critical
if no the fire or the smoke or the trees
the speculation of time is question
these clouds thumbtack the hard moon
I am standing in the barn at seven
everything is not all right
the city
thinking squarely in the face
I passion trees; I heart the moon
exposition is not clear reason
the silo at the edge of barn as
old as I & crumbles
the city remembers bees
beauty squarely in the eye
could never look me in the you
house
at some point it was a good idea to put the couch out
the house in glen robertson the hill stands
tim hortons coffee fresh as the ice
he says, when in rome. . .
instinct my critical song; my failed life
as a montreal go-go dancer
thighs out to ready; heart the wind
I am as proceedural as stone berth
harkening the telltale thump of heart all
roads lead to
no more oldies; stop playing that middle
of the road shit
I am dead outside
religion
the merit of association is punctuated
I heart & the world hearts me
brockwell laughs at aphids, not aphorisms
I am the other way around
the tree at the top of the hill is a red line
a suggestion of birds overwhelm
the water is think & reliable
if being afraid of the arc needs a bite-light