new from above/ground press

A Creation Song
a poem, by Max Middle

from "A Creation Song":

Flaccid apparatus laughed a lot leaving lucky a flotation device.
Lotta rolla hopscotch took a chance lurking out on the local side.
Best alone left on the pot to boil out the answer to a bulldozer;
the chalk oil choke throttle west fluttered a glance towards
oh, and off the ruffle, tottle or dawdle, shift, thanks mixing
new snow puffed louder peeled on the purchased affluence of
powdering a powerful person on the nose on the loose.
Because a pastime crimps a boiled plant to toughness
and it's off the fuffle, now that the stink is gone and the best
of the plant eaten or planted stuffed became the rest,
flaccid afloat and laughed a lot like a smile in the tackle berries
with alotta rolla hopscotch taking a chance leasing it to cherries.

Max Middle is a writer & photographer. He returned to Ottawa early in 2003 after having spent more than four years in Edmonton. In 2002, he completed a BA Honours degree in art history at the University of Alberta. He organizes MediumRaw, a recently inaugurated Ottawa event that combines poetry, performance, art & music.

published in ottawa by above/ground press. subscribers rec' a complimentary copy. to order, send $2 + $1 for postage (or $2 for non-canadian) to rob mclennan, 858 somerset st w, main floor, ottawa ontario k1r 6r7. backlist catalog & submission info at
www.track0.com/rob_mclennan

above/ground press chapbook subscriptions - starting January 1st, $30 per calendar year (outside of Canada, $30 US) for chapbooks, broadsheets + asides. Current & forthcoming publications by Artie Gold, Julia Williams, donato mancini, rob mclennan, kath macLean, Andy Weaver, Barry McKinnon, Larry Sawyer, John Barton, Claudia Lapp, Matthew Holmes + others. payable to rob mclennan.

STANZAS subscriptions, $20 (CAN) for 5 issues (non-Canadian, $20 US). recent issues featuring work by Meredith Quartermain, Daniel f. Bradley & Rob Budde. bibiography on-line.