from Fair bodies of unseen prose,
A comfortable place in the unconscious
Can one dream while lying awake? This proximity of cloud. Consensus, the end of parenthetical. Draws curtains, threat. This pragmatism: my mother gave birth to it. Melancholy, melancholy. Ask anything you want. What measure, propositions. Withdraw. Jolting, epiphanic effect. This sentence, shadows; these missives on death. Slammed door, silver lining. Declarative: I would have liked to move the earth. Imagine, the desire for mute prose. Liquid. This body or death. This end of text.
rob mclennan’s latest titles are On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press, 2024), Snow day (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025) and the forthcoming the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025). He is currently Artistic Director of VERSeFest: Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival. https://robmclennan.substack.com/
