ISSUE 2 · SPRING 2009
from the stones DAVID McLEAN from the stones runs water rehearsing winter, and running slower till it gets to be temporary stone, an arrogant eternity of ice to freeze fingers to the pump
and leave skin as tribute to the imps of water and the sanctity of matter, water and blood for them, the little devils of chance and facticity. they are not sentient, not mystic,
here where they only live in poems about an adverse world turning, and people becoming things they never meant to be, like dead or happy and nothing forever until the night breaks,
and we lie eternity motionless in the grave, dead and wide awake
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David McLean is Welsh but has lived in Sweden since 1987. He lives there on an island in the Stockholm archipelago with his woman, their six cats, and his dog. He has a BA in History from Oxford, and an unconnected MA in philosophy, much later, from Stockholm. Up to date details of McLean's publications and several available books and chapbooks, including three print full lengths and two free electronic chapbooks are at his blog. A third full length laughing at funerals is available March 12th 2010 from Small Press Distribution. It is available now at epic rites bookstore.