Touch the Donkey #27

Thank you rob mclennan for sending me a copy of Touch the Donkey #27! I have had the minimum two read-throughs, and now the inevitable extractions.

In order of appearance:

You! Chief embarasser of the pub which raised high its monumental hanging baskets

                                            -- Kate Field, "False spring ode"

Clothes become baggy enterprises of older selves, & daughter studies my inability to order the passing

                                            -- Isabel Sobral Campos, from"How to Make

                                                                                              Words Rubble"

Radiant and magnificent, the day 

Arouses our ambivalence; places

Knowledge as a possible nothing in

The world, and retreats into a subject

Choosing to think loosely through the restrictions

                                             --Jay Millar, from "Canto One"                                                                                      

Notice the skin and red, hearable

                                            -- Lisa Samuels, from "Movies for the blind"

A finished thought in rinsing

Is losing its shell

                                               -- Prathna Lor, from "Three Poems"                                                                                         

Did I see McFadden's little car

              zip by?   Cigar

                   between those teeth?

                                               -- George Bowering, from "Mandatory Sod" 

spilling out kensington market

of twenty years ago;

we caressed the velvet vests

and dreamed of top-hat ringmaster

courage, my love

                                                -- natalie hanna, from "Three Poems"