an aluminum can rolls
up the hill

on a monday of late recycling

coke or pepsi, does it matter, caught up
w/ just enough

of air

a red swirl

makes headway up, till a car passes
over, redirects

currents, back a few feet, before
it resumes, ahead

above the open hollows, south staind
shadows of illusion

the street dark w/ early rain, & gusts
of brightdark cloud

the borderline of one & one more

if they even make them w/ aluminum,
or some other material, by now

up the wind & never makes it back down

certain works of carl stewart, artist

the consequences, of two men

wrestling, black leotards, or
blue yarn flash

the super-8 film superimposed

sound, against the granary
of speech

impeccable timing, one goes
off at the same

turns to his left, turns back
to the singular

& rental agency, discression
is never certain

methodology of intrusion, either watching
or then joining in

cuts a short hair, & rose
coloured glasses

the other side of the mouth 32

a study of context, blue
is ever so

a saturday morning cowboy, &
a sense of

proprietary markings, three small songs

a series of admonishments, held
& ever spoken, not

telling, like of a line
like who is flesh & song

like who is saintly, & genre

the other side of the mouth 33

a flesh made up of vowels, cut
above the i

constant cloth, of consonants
the sounding out

toth & thoth, a system
of probability

& multiple effects

probing the thots of, sense
& sensai

a flowering of smooth calm
never the mind you

fire & pure hearth

order

the other side of the mouth 34

reach that, line

a quagmire

the i before e, except
after sea

shore & soft foot, barren

froth, the water white
& red sand
raining blood in some other part
of post-hurricane

sweeping riverbeds & rivers

raining fish at terminal velocity

a camel, thru

the glass

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rob mclennan is a poet, book reviewer, visual artist, editor/publisher of above/ground press & STANZAS magazine, & runs SPAN-O (small press action network - ottawa). winner of the 1999 CAA/Air Canada Award for Most Promising Writer under 30, he has published poetry, fiction & critical writing across Canada, the Unitied States, Australia, India, the UK & Czech Republic. he is the editor of "YOU AND YOUR BRIGHT IDEAS: NEW MONTREAL WRITING" (with Andy Brown, 2001, Vehicule Press), & the forthcoming "side/lines: a poetics" (2002, Insomniac Press). his 6th poetry collection, "harvest: a book of signifiers" is due out in fall 2001 with Talonbooks. he lives & breathes in Ottawa, Ontario. :: top ::

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