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The Seated Woman: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781487013295
Publisher: Arachnide Editions
Published: Mar 25 2025
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.70 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Longlisted, 2026 League of Canadian Poets' Pat Lowther Memorial Award
THE POEMS
You fell asleep on the tiles,
a translucent peacock loomed,
your sex opened and let out
a very blue, very high flame.
You wore a split veil, that morning.
Silent, nailed to her chair, the seated woman writes. She cracks. The poems fidget, slip their fingers: they seek to enter. Perched on her shoulder, the poems whisper in her ear. She captures their messages: I love the sacred contortions you offer me. The poems protest: You're squeezing us too hard: careful, pet.
More than descriptors, the words behave as commands or moves in a game--and the voice of the seated woman rises to play.
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