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Marie Andree-Auclair
About the Writer
Marie-Andree Auclair’s poems have appeared in a variety of print and online publications in such as In/Words Magazine, Bywords, The Steel Chisel, filling Station, Contemporary Verse 2, Structo UK, Apeiron, Canthius, The Tule Review and others. Her first chapbook, Contrails, was released by In/Words Magazine and Press/Ottawa in 2013. She lives in Ottawa Canada and is working on her next chapbook.
Closer Than One Thinks
sand
force-fused by lightning
on long ago beach
to sudden stone
rippled, hollow
breaks sharper than rock
breaks light
into rainbows
fulgurite
conquered
lump in kiln
aglow
mass and filaments
convex or flattened
full of distortions
crash, melodic dissonance
glass
—in silver frame,
poisonous tin and mercury
lacquering its back
into reflection—
mirrors a face
that resembles mine,
shows what one cannot see
what looms behind
lurks around corners
what one flees
what others see
all too well.
Contents
Poetry
-- Ambassador To A Distant Kingdom In The North County
-- Memory Consumed So It Was Never
-- To My Brother's Late Dragon Lady
-- House Stuff
-- My Underwear Drawer Houses the Book of Mormon
-- sunday mornings, after Afghanistan
Prose
-- Heat Dream
-- Mayonaise
-- Orlando Two Point O: Hashtag Forever Yung
Artwork and Photography
-- The New World Manbike 12 x 9 2016
-- The New World Workers 2 Ink 15 x 11 2016
-- Mistry Trees
-- Let it Begin
-- Untitled-Gouache, Graphite, Ink and Watercolour on Laid-Textured Paper
-- Nope-Gouache, Graphite, Ink and Watercolour on Found Paper
-- Horrible Together, Full Circle-Ink on Cardboard Paper
Reviews
Margaret Crawford
-- A Review of Kathleen McCraken's Double Self-Portrait with Mirror: New and Selected Poems (1978-2014)
-- A Review of R. Aviars Utskins' The Hoosier Zebra and other "Poims"