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This Poem was published in the October 2007 Issue

(about to be)

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Fred Wah, former poetry editor of the LRC, lives in downtown Vancouver and works on the Kootenay School of Writing collective. These poems are from a chapbook, Articulations, to be published in 2007 by Nomados. He usually reads literary magazines, and on his desk at the moment are Open Letter (London), West Coast Line (Vancouver), Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics (Minneapolis) and The Poker (Cambridge).

About to be a runner
About to be a manner
About to play the clarinet
About to be a lover
About to be alone
About a sack of bones
About that smoke around your neck
About to be unknown

Read more from the October 2007 Issue, including all related letters.