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Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them
Stranger music

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Shadows the words
  3. Three votive candles
  4. Fifty more
  5. Here is where was
  6. Second of the night
  7. No family one pictures
  8. Grand parenthesis
  9. Where the area code ends
  10. Found and lost
  11. Take forever just a minute
  12. A sound outside the house
  13. A pantoum to smash pandas
  14. Anthropocene obscene as orange
  15. Room for one more
  16. The leaf is not the line
  17. Why the blue whale risked its neck
  18. Mab and Burke
  19. L’âme de l’homme est fait du papier
  20. Voyager 2, thinking, types things
  21. Lunar sonata
  22. Baby Bee explains Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
  23. Whose eyes are shut in every photo
  24. Heaven help the roses
  25. Forgive me Cathy for
  26. Ever
  27. The lineaments
  28. New patriot love
  29. You and you kiss the knife moon
  30. Grosvenor Road
  31. Shape your eyes by shutting them
  32. The space of one paragraph
  33. Was I asleep?
  34. The Pit of Carkoon
  35. Raver in the bathroom
  36. Like opening your refrigerator door
  37. This time the subway
  38. Speeches for Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for Figures at The Base of a Crucifixion
  39. Nightmares in the university’s ruins
  40. Stranger music
  41. Ecstasy, Euphrasia
  42. In Gwen MacEwen Park
  43. Cash paradise
  44. Moon of a far planet
  45. Fuseli in Peru
  46. Notes
  47. Acknowledgements and publication credits

Stranger music

we met in the agreed-on

school parking lot

in a far-off neighbourhood

neither of us lived in

she handed me the money

I handed her the violin

neither of us knew how to play

we drove away in opposite

directions leaving the lot like

no cars had ever parked there

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