new from above/ground press

junkmaildays
by Sophie Levy
$4

asplenium

subject to fullness or symptomatic of grace
these long days

flamelike over bodies of water walked to their extent
to their shadows resonant

under rain we dance the lake effect for thor
and his thunderlings

our mouths smeared with chocolate singing
to be heard

over weather she has stepped out of
the desert and

into cascades into English greys
she whispers French

from her Cuban heels percussion we are
no longer wood

no longer paper cut and dried but
wet with wanting

more summer than a freezer full of ice-cream
whose various flavours

torch and paint us scarlet in her voice
until we speak

like nightingales in slivered tongues
we cannot understand

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Sophie Levy writes & thinks in various ways in Toronto. Her work has
appeared in print, on stage, on the radio & online over 3 continents and
in a variety of genres, most recently a punk chapbook called These are the
Licks. She took a trip on the Perpetual Motion Roadshow with Girls Who
Bite Back, regularly performs as her alter-ego Pixie at Coffeehouse events
in Toronto, & contributes to the Canadian poetic economy as poetry editor
at echolocation.

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