February 2007 / Poetry

Quick Ghazal

the sum of the very coffee, invective cold the scrape of days take winterlude from muddy water to bare bone how every curse at the bus stop a silver shadow …

- by Rob mclennan Updated 11:59, Jul. 5, 2017 | Published 4:22, Feb. 12, 2007This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current.

the sum of the very coffee,
invective cold

the scrape of days take winterlude
from muddy water

to bare bone

how every curse at the bus stop
a silver shadow

a forced migration turns dyspeptic

my mutton heart arrows
a hangover of trees

her william tell overtures

days of cholera & new york magazine
covers

home a figure for mixed meanings

we wound by how

we name

Rob mclennan

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