rob mclennan's first May-Day post;

Okay, so this is my first post to such a thing as well; what can I tell you? I'm finishing up my tenure at the end of this month as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and then back to Ottawa to promote the upcoming ottawa small press book fair that I've been running twice a year since 1994. Too much! Here is a fragment of a longer thing I was working on last week, while at the Banff Writing Studio [see my other post on such here].

from The Banff Sessions

mouth at knees your back,
a downward mastery of slopes

do you breathe me, trees?

pacific out a breeze, warm air
would subvert, slide

this lake of little wishes

in its mastery, floorboards failure
down the mountain path

month-watch, switch & bait,
a cornerstone of halves

tectonic caution, apple waves

little wonder, this were fishes,
would the tongue insider be falling

, falling


rob mclennan
Edmonton AB