Tuesday poem #331 : Zane Koss : two sonnets for mike chaulk

                        i.

what angles this (attach  4/21

send documents, attach

track birds on horizons  hit send;

on the deck, a pigeon encroaches

and wave it away with a hockey

stick to give precise an account

of how long we live; the mallard can,

and joins the gaps in branches; out

fishing, and wonder to share this

with you, to share this with you

send lines, and under, scout surface,

lines stuck in, log jams, go back

hit send   and we visit ,there now

where home, docx and edit   hit send ,  was

                                          and wait for, return

                        ii.

house is, this desire is, tied back to notions 4/26 5/01

of a specific labour, of a time or means

exploitation that i can’tget back to

find myself dreaming rivers on the train,

in front of my computer, talking

while we watch tv / but not that

there, here think checking the river

levels on the drive, car wheels

rattling wooden    bridge; how the

right song then could   just, one ready             , and that

was never lived up to like it felt but

if you could get that track to click just

write, and i could be back there

or there or,              here is where

                  i am attach, send, return, to go back:

go back.

Zane Koss is a non-resident alien currently living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He was raised on the traditional lands of the Ktunaxa (Kootenay) and Secwépemc (Shuswap) people. His critical and creative work can be found in the Chicago Review, CV2, Poetry is Dead, and elsewhere. He has two chapbooks of poetry, job site (Blasted Tree, 2018) and Warehouse Zone (Publication Studio Guelph, 2015), with two more forthcoming thi year with above/ground press. Zane is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at New York University, where he researches Canadian and Mexican poetry in the 1960s and 1970s. web: https://wp.nyu.edu/zanekoss/

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