Category Archives: Poetry

Birdbreast

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Francois Lachance

The joy of finding the lines referencing the title lodged in the middle of the book… Each one a furnace,each chest a coral of embers, Tolu Oloruntoba“Pyrrhula”Each One A Furnace And so for day 308624.05.2015

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Being Drawn In

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Gillian Sze“The Hesitant Gaze”quiet night think Ekphrasis is not only to compose a text inspired by the artwork itself, but also to be carried off by the uncontainable surge of memory and affect, judgment and speculation. And so for day … Continue reading →

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Wilding

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Matthew Walsh“For my future wilderness”These are not the potatoes of my youth Ending of a poem & ending of a book … I can be this poem. I can be wilderness. And so for day 308018.05.2015

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LEAVEN

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Francois Lachance

breadbrokenstolenbreadcrumbs And so for day 307917.05.2015

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Advice

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Katherena Vermette“how to argue”river woman never use the wordneveror alwaysthink of what you wantnot only how you feel And so for day 307816.05.2015

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Follow the Pen Stroke

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Jessi MacEachernRavishing the Sex into the Hold The inkpot ceased blushing. The heavenly hierarchy dipped their pen. They were only the bodies of ghosts following birds of the heart. And so for day 307715.05.2015

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Adjacencies

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Bahar OrangWhere Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty In awe of the subtle placement of items on this list — they lift off and set the mind to roaming and circling back to the ongoing meditation on beauty. … many … Continue reading →

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Far Outreaching Its Roots

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Francois Lachance

An image of the world tree and the cosmos: Like boundless IgdrasilThat has the stars for fruit. Richard Wilbur“Seed Leaves”Walking To Sleep And so for day 307008.05.2015

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Ago you were

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Jennifer LoveGroveThe Tinder Sonnets These are little machines for transposition and mutation. For example: “You were last online twelve minutes ago” shifts its place in next iteration and then in the third : “You were last online twelve mirrors / … Continue reading →

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Tour de force

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Nasser Husain in SKY WRI TEI NGS offers TEN DRR BUT TON (FOR GER TIE) Rewrites the “Contents” page from the Food section of Gertrude Stein/s Tender Buttons using 3 letter airport codes Read aloud at PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Hussain.php And so … Continue reading →

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