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This Poem was published in the October 2007 Issue

(Noli me tangere)

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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).

First the hot and dry
Crossed up middle
By right cell strips
Down to craving, gravel
Elbows on the wing
Brushed with taste
This damp phant’sy
Lured by the sentence
Left or between
Noli me tangere
Voilà! quite contrary

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