The Lines We Carry

1. My human face a blazing shield/is all that I could give or she demand/ so I shall hazard shame for future love/and list with soldiers my degenerate name: Debbie. My name is Debbie... Lisa Robertson

2. It's just a little peg/my dog of water. Erin Moure

3. There was a shopping mall/ now it's all covered with flowers. Talking Heads

4. I have listened to the hard gossip of race that inhabits this road...even in this I have tried to hum... Dionne Brand

5. I was much further out than you thought... Stevie Smith

6. Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech. Christian Bok

7. A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing.... Gertrude Stein

8. No worse, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief/more pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Hopkins

9. I don't know what to do/ two states of mind in me. Anne Carson/Sappho

10. Looking takes you so far on a leash of delight, then removes it and says/the price of admission to further is your name. Tim Lilburn

11. a not-turtle-plus-rat-catchat/a plus-dog-plus-rat-pas-chat dog. Caroline Bergvall

12. In cess, in dis-/ownmost, in ripture,/in slow-mo history cease,/ in bio in haemo in necro-yet how/dumbfound how/dazzled, how/mortally lucky to be. Dennis Lee