Four poems appear in the current issue of The Antigonish Review and forthcoming in Poetry Salzburg, Plumwood Mountain, Shearsman, Envoi, Curlew, Obsessed with Pipework and The Journal.
This one features in Helen Ivory’s 2018/19 Twelve Days of Christmas.
What kind of humbuggery is this?
Via the black hole from heaven
she inches nervously
down the celestial ladder
/aluminium, installed
by the good man/
one cloud box at a time
Trawls through the galaxy
for the showiest bling—
birds in glass orbs, sleigh bells
snatched in the sales
Meteors of lametta
streak their glitzy wake
through her no-mess-
no-drop-needle forest
Last but never least
the Angel of Hope
braces for the conception
Wings shaken loose
at the pinions after
rough handling
impaled nevertheless
on the bristling spine
of old man pine
Cardboard crinoline
stiff with imminence
in a perpetual lean
Links to poems online
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/250060
http://cordite.org.au/tags/julie-maclean/
http://verityla.com/earth-apples-of-modern-love-and-mushrooms-julie-maclean/
http://antiphon.org.uk/index.php/act-three-13/442-woman-at-window-julie-maclean
http://redroomcompany.org/poet/julie-maclean/
http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=4799
http://www.foame.org/Issue10/biographies/bio-maclean.html
http://www.ofipress.com/macleanjulie.htm
https://bodyliterature.com/2013/04/23/julie-maclean/
