L'Intrigue, the Wild Magnolia of Literature

Volume 12 - Issue I

the propriative act

by David McLean

a poem is a propriative act
that tenders love for the
fatuous dust, childish
Ereignis that knows
nostalgia it holds enowned
like a child. elided the time
that steals days away
and enfolded the harmless
babe in arms who charms us
thus; yet i prefer Dichtung
about drugs, and suchlike
disgusting stuff, the gramme
that interests me
is not deciphered but snorted,
and philosophy has bored us
quite enough

©David McLean


David McLean is Welsh though he has lived in Sweden since 1987. His chapbooks are available, one a free download at Whyvandalism.com. The other, in print, can be ordered at http://www.erbacce-press.com/#/davidmclean/4527659941. His full length poetry collection can be found at Whistling Shade Press called Cadaver's dance. It can be ordered on alibris.com or on amazon.com. A second book of 128 pp is coming from Erbacce-press in August, pushing lemmings. A self-published book of 109 pages is available at Lulu called eating your night. McLean has written 600 poems now in, or forthcoming, in over 250 magazines online and/or in print. Details are at his blog at htpp://mourningabortion.blogspot.com.


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