Special FeatureJoanna ValenteStanford Cheung, poetry, special feature

Stanford Cheung: Even Blue Is a Body

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteStanford Cheung, poetry, special feature
Stanford Cheung: Even Blue Is a Body
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TRANSMISSION TOWER

 

You forget even the blue is a body

hiked by ruptured skies

 

ready to burn like little cracks of wire

scraped over a sheet of blue

 

and the sun’s unsinkable shiver

dreaming their next lives over shores

inside stars

 

Then another day strung like faces

in a field pulled away

 

Beneath rocks

the sound of clouds swept by wind

 

never stopping to look

but at themselves

Stanford Cheung is a poet and musician from Toronto. He is the author of the collection Structures from the Still (Akinoga Press, 2018). His chapbooks include Any Seam or Needlework (The Operating System, 2016), Kite Extension (Words(on)Pages, 2017) and Comfort of Malice (Inspiritus, 2018). Presently, Stanford resides in Montreal.


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