book to the back and
check your fleet feet
not often a zoot-suiter can
behave, trace time
in the back of a limo,
find time to chat with the babes
who rocket by in Oldsmobiles,
classy as stoned ponies
on some dude ranch,
their long talons
sharpened for protection,
for disaster really,
a warning to those men
who creep in with capes
trailing in the dark
green grass, hoping for
something more than flesh.
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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