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Get this magazine. They use big words. Interspersed between the big words are some little words. None of the words seem, on the surface, to belong together. But occasionally, as you read the words you stop seeing the words and you get the illusion that something real and wonderful is happening. Listen: Out of salt, iron and out of iron, gold and out of gold along the chain of alchemical time reversals the endless valley of rock cools and twists into its dear and familiar contours; arbutus buttress the hillside, black-faced hogs take their ease beneath the pale sun, a rumbling truck ejects a gnarled and burly knob of firewood into the roadway, and each day he consults the compass to find magnetic north has drifted a few degrees off true-

poetry litzine / no known publisher / main creators: Louis Cabri & Rob Manery (editors) / $8 year / 123 Irving Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 1Z3

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