rob mclennan and Christine McNair

Gridlock,

I worked on us
for weeks.

Matthea Harvey, Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form

knows everything, best. An hour's drive south,
Montreal, might as well be the moon.

Although we can see the moon.


2.

Hold up the flaws. A body, bends light.

Weak tea is no witness. Excuse.


3.

We have never been on a paddleboat.
Together, I mean.


4.

Bed was full of your fingers. Took nothing
for granted. Not even the bed.
I remember the frontline.


5.

A red ochre specimen. Today,
follows a sentence.

Outside, pealed green. Few words accompany.