Tuesday poem #49 : Karen Mac Cormack : Various Turns

commonly

in place of

word for word

against

a comparison

to regular order

prescription

a detail with reasons

proportionate share

as far as

the plan of a forthcoming book

more

everywhere

state of equality

for all

a memorial

writ commanding

letter for letter

also; an article

extemporaneous composition

in the first place

let it be printed

in the same place

freely

a decree unpremeditated

departure

therefore

erase or expunge

mark used in interlineation

an additional premium

in English

elsewhere

;

Karen Mac Cormack [photo credit: Clare Paniccia] is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, most recently AGAINST WHITE (Veer Books, London, 2013). Her poems have appeared in a number of anthologies including Moving Borders, Out of Everywhere, Another Language, and Prismatic Publics. Her texts have been translated into French, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian. Of dual Canadian/British citizenship she lived in Toronto for many years and in 2004 moved to the USA where she teaches at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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