Productive and Inspiring Artistic Experience

David Bradford


in the fortnight’s notebook

in the step as somehow retreat

in the one imaginary hole

in this mountainside

in the freckled with refineries

in the buffaloed by this elevated sleep

in the feels like a plastic trick

in the air up here so dry

in the peeling ridgeline off my lips

in the adult camp copied and pasted

in these blanched waysides 

in these comparative drips

in this salty gathering of humidifier rains

in an o so big raven my very first and just the landscape

in the timbered artist motel and white energy pavilion

in the buck to trawl me up to my vistas buffet breakfast

in the tarred up relief

in the breadth of the improvement district

in this runneth other carbon sink

in this carved out by glaciers

in the perfect for a few selfies

in this proof I made it alive

and subsidy



David Bradford is the author of Nell Zink Is Damn Free (Blank Cheque Press, 2017), Call Out (knife | fork | book, 2017) and The Plot (House House Press, 2018). He holds an MFA from the University of Guelph and his poetry has appeared in Prairie Fire, Lemon Hound, Vallum, Poetry Is Dead, The Capilano Review, The Unpublished City, and elsewhere. He lives in Verdun, Qc, on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation.