What Do We Know about Pregnancy, and: Subtitled, [a primer]
- What Do We Know about Pregnancy, and: Subtitled, [a primer]
What Do We Know about Pregnancy
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I shall begin, by speaking. Incubate, introduce a glossary. Unpaginated. Just on the tongue. I attempt to articulate.
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Something is growing, inside. Occupant. Connects whole milk to healthy industry. Exhausted, reclines.
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The necessity of, a new sentence. The body produces. What we call, little sprout. What she calls, the ultimate creative act.
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Not much. Objects move, gaze recalculates. Obliged, by the medium. The grouping of two combined texts. [End Page 150]
Subtitled, [a primer]
The dawn unwinds. The borders overtake the surfaces. Under the pages the volume whitens. What I have left.
—Raquel, trans. Norma Cole, Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
Below the surface, astonishing posture. Weather islands from the shipwreck. Carnivorous fallow, waves. Inboard,
trace of waves.
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Lack, or locked out. What does this say,
Withdraw. The mountains threaten inversion, slip a sea wide bed amid downstrokes,
a meal the size of tongues.
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But, the clouds. Cloud.
What other notes have you taken? [End Page 151]
The author of more than twenty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, rob mclennan’s most recent titles include Notes and Dispatches: Essays (Insomniac Press, 2014), The Uncertainty Principle: Stories (Chaudiere Books, 2014), and the poetry collection If Suppose We Are a Fragment (BuschekBooks, 2014). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books, 17 seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics, Touch the Donkey, and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater. He regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews, and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com.
