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Near Missconsiders the relationship between close calls and the tenuous conditions of contemporary life. From actual cataclysms such as meteor collisions and volcanic eruptions to everyday failures and accidents, these inventive poems collide with the perpetual unease created by life's unpredictability while contemplating mortality, fragility, gratitude and hopefulness.

... When the Emergency Broadcast

System proclaims this is only a test, you

leave the TV on because you've gotten

used to the sound. You keep waiting

for the heat to come on, for the regular

broadcast to resume, for a new sensation

to quicken inside you like the sight

of that fleet of ghost-planes lifted

from the desert, reanimated, hovering

over your house as if everything is fine.

Decommissioned Planes

Near Miss

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    A Paperback / softback by Laura Matwichuk

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      Publisher: Nightwood Editions
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/10/2019
      ISBN13: 9780889713536, 978-0889713536
      ISBN10: 889713537

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Near Missconsiders the relationship between close calls and the tenuous conditions of contemporary life. From actual cataclysms such as meteor collisions and volcanic eruptions to everyday failures and accidents, these inventive poems collide with the perpetual unease created by life's unpredictability while contemplating mortality, fragility, gratitude and hopefulness.

      ... When the Emergency Broadcast

      System proclaims this is only a test, you

      leave the TV on because you've gotten

      used to the sound. You keep waiting

      for the heat to come on, for the regular

      broadcast to resume, for a new sensation

      to quicken inside you like the sight

      of that fleet of ghost-planes lifted

      from the desert, reanimated, hovering

      over your house as if everything is fine.

      Decommissioned Planes

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