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Natalie Zina Walschots: A Short Campaign
11.01.08
"A Short Campaign" is a section from Thumbscrews (Snare Books 2007). Natalie Zina Walschots recently completed her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. She serves as the Managing Editor for filling Station and is the co-organizer of the Flywheel reading series. She has also served as the Managing Editor for dANDelion. Her work has recently appeared in Matrix and The Capilano Review. Sections of Thumbscrews have appeared as the No Press chapbooks Passion Play and Christening, and the work is the 2007 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry winner.

Natalie Zina Walschots interviewed  by Sina Queyras. derek beaulieu on Thumbscrews.

 

 

to arms


studded  tar baleful

concrete bower bird

wallow black strippling

socket narc wrenches

chafed enamel frags

swollen rubber gunned

creaky grin chaps laced

fringed hang up tanned thick

live rawhide appeal

crude liminal tooth

buckled shoulder swash

bright jolly grip fang

swelter belly up

salted sumo barbed

wire stentorian

breath tore so apple

tickled latex plumb

line jugular primed

bloodshot glory hole

grazer bayonet


 


disarm


vinyl curtail

beads milky

sullen pinscher

plucks sleeker

torrent frolic

buzz licks her

squealer lippy

damp razor

flick her faucet

thrums opal

squelch steamer

dorsum gage

pout apricot

succour skin

keratin sucker

throaty gleam

croon waterlogged

vapour liable

scratch undone

reluctant curl

stem runoff

inverted bare

loopy aloe

baby powder

epithelial

epi cure


 



unarmed


cleft unpeel

halter clutch

sour prickle

curtly bend

taut languish

slattern lift

laud curdle

shin girder

coddle nerve

bit pearly

nudge lustre

ply leather


 


armament


glass clinks mint

rose tints

wink crass sins

blank tarts

ice blinks risk

mics hiss

blank hits glib

harsh bliss

tanks swarm grit

crisp shanks

sharp arcs tisk

mire ink

gripper


 


armature


hush clay surety

flannel altar

neck pools receptive

clavicle pine

blush coy piety

lino falter

thumbs press trachea

cervical spine


 


armoury


studded  tongue drawls

sudden ululation

appeased moray eel

mouths plead

lubricious houri

loses the blouse

roils gold gutted

wrecked lordly wallow

huff loaded galleons


 


armistice


moon sliver cuticles

sung inverted

spoons mimic bifocals

slimed mercury

palm cupping percussion

clasp deserted

plum biting concussion

blind perjury

soap polished galaxies

shone intrepid

pale yellow vertices

sore geometry