Linda Gregerson

Linda Gregerson's most recent collection is Canopy.

Poem: ‘Archival’

Linda Gregerson, 21 January 2021

If the curator should wish, for example,         to save for later scrutiny (or

wonder, wonder’s worthy too) a once-         ubiquitous download for

disbursing the forces of Christendom         or evading the enemy’s land mines

or colonising Mars and if, as is all         but certain,...

There’s the irony intended and the irony added like                                      icing on top: fill the air with

                                      sweetness,...

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