CHAIN 7: Virgins of the Rocks

1 Wingbone hollow, the winkingCavemouth: two paintings / eight figuresForegrounded and absent ofAttributes (Paris version)Or haloed by thin loops of goldNearly identical otherwise saveA gesture or reverberant gazeA blueshifted robe: either work may beInvoked against the plague 2 Maybe in Montana there’s a MadonnaWith her teeth ajar and all the…

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CHAIN 6: Trundlesung

there are margins down the middle of ussides inside and we blunder somewhere in betweenthere are rocks in Butte, Montana that ring / immaculately shatteredeach fissure humming siphoned errhighway signs: “warning, falling rallentando”cliff sides strummed by passing cars / rock brokeninto singing and oxygen broken into breathinglungcavern vibrating and sediment…

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CHAIN 4: Lady Mondegreen

if we at all labyrinthed hearing onething, the synthesis twixt ear / lip trips             wrong. if songs longing to ring true crack             apart, so sound smashes in earbowlsto omelets of curdled interpretation. notspeaking yellow but hell no. not sunny side             up but run, runny; sundered connections flip-             flopped from the…

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CHAIN 3: Ménière’s Apophenia

If I ever hear anything at alllicked clear of the fuzz beneath the rushingwater falling, Giddyup partiallyglue-trapped hammipedes shushing upstream,porcine extrusions sidewind gutter balling,if I ever hearing ground belly-up, portents singhighwiring goosecracks, if ever I hear thinkslinked clean, kneehigh the bonejack,if hearing I anything imputes dreams,smells of hornets, smack it…

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CHAIN 1: Delusional Structures of the Inner Ear

Fregoli’s Hammer Everyone sherries a gâteau now and then or      rums a ham secretly, tips a flask in coffee,     guzzles pure ethanol soon as I stop gawking.Everyone carries a shadow like a fender     needing swift beatings in darkrooms during off-peak     hours to undent their deep, topographic pocking.Everyone’s someone’s unpaid amanuensis     sneaking in nightly to…

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4PANEL Supplement No. 16 now free online (from CAROUSEL 42)

Kim Jooha recently guest-edited The 4PANEL Project‘s 8-page Supplement section in CAROUSEL 42. This special section features explorations of the four-panel comic strip format by an absolutely magical roster of both Canadian and international artists: William Dereume (Canada) Margaux Duseigneur (France) François Henninger (France) Huh Hyunjung (South Korea) Laurence Lagier (France) Lomé…

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LGBTQA+GTA

In 2019, CAROUSEL interviewed five writers whose origins spanned the globe, whose ages straddled generations, whose writing practices crossed genres and genders, but who were all akin insofar as they were then at work making queer poetry in the GTA. The essay based on those interviews appeared in full in…

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