By Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall was a forgettable student at the University of Saskatchewan. He is now readying himself for a PhD on Jeremy Prynne and the ‘Cambridge School of Contemporary Poetics’. His poetry and prose commonly appear in North American journals and most recently has been featured in: Forget Magazine, ditch, Jones Av, Fieldstone Review, and forthcoming from Misunderstandings Magazine. His first chapbook Brutal Tender Human Animal is available from Trainwreck Press.

FROM THE COLLECTION NO IRON RING (THIRD)

the bridge is singular it asserts its beauty as verisimilitude of form its presence is a provocation a displacement of the natural strung like a witness over incremental depths the tenants of this occupation suppose the iron ordinance of stasis a beauty that refuses to be held entirely bridging precipice to precipice a band of light over that which lies beneath (first | second)