"a flicker
between melt and summer, hibernation
and the grand folly of generation,
a trust kindled by some other fire."

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Votive by Annick MacAskill (@annickmacaskill) from Votive (2024 Gaspereau Press) https://tinyurl.com/yc72ukj3

"She herself made not a time; she fell almost
as a word through time."

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Gospel by Annick MacAskill (@annickmacaskill) from No Meeting Without Body (2018 Gaspereau Press) https://tinyurl.com/bdvyjnfe

"you'd aligned yourself with a single point
and were flying towards it just as you tunnelled
through me before and my body remembered
the force of that will, had been its vehicle."

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Going There by Margo Wheaton (2024 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/2cphaasy

28/31: NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY by Annick MacAskill (@annickmacaskill) (2018 Gaspereau Press) https://tinyurl.com/bdvyjnfe

"God bless it all, the whir, a sound like
promises and winter,

through Sherbourne and Castle Frank;
rarely are you this far east.

End of the day and you still love him,
him and his *fucking blue eyes.*"

Ode on the Afternoon

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16/31: PILLOW TALK by Rebecca Salazar (2024 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/2hb7s52m

"we caught fire
in all the wrong ways. how does a phoenix
miscarry her own rebirth. no flaming
sex, no little death, only burnt earth."

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"and we were adamant
that none should be left out: Alfonso,
Marcus, Gasper, Bernardino,
Ann and Fran, Jeronimo, and -

History does not record
the name of the Albanian,
the boatman from Battista, or -"

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Strange Brotherhood by Luke Hathaway (2024 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/5fv6xark

"Each morning makes promises that can't be kept,
instead hands over the same length of being you been
spliced in from the jump."

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All This Is by Chris Bailey (2024 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/4f3b7fwr

"I choose, for moderate comfort, a thin tree
whose tallest branch has yet one leaf
hunched brown. A flag? Defiance? Obstinance?
A declaration I suppose.
I make it mine."

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Leaf by M. Travis Lane (2024 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/2tpuh2zb

"I can taste the tin of the sky, the real tin thing

of the construction rising before me,
the punch of subterranean drilling
heavy and tight beneath my breast. "

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Circumference by Annick MacAskill (@annickmacaskill) (2023 CBC Books) https://tinyurl.com/5h62mp4j

"The wound of the night, wrote Walser—the moon,
our beautiful word-wound. Shadow curve
of silver-white beyond grey ceiling."

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Sonohysterogram by Annick MacAskill (@annickmacaskill) (2024 Ex-Puritan) https://tinyurl.com/7frpdz7m