SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD 2022ampampamp160FINALIST FOR THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD 2022Words like radio waves bouncing off the spectres of mortality middle age and the mundane. ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10ampampamp10Arriving at middle age was a decisive experience for David OMeara standing equidistant to the past and future with its accompanying doubts and anticipations inviting reevaluation of past goals confronting personal loss and the death of his father and friends. These are the masses on radar indistinct but detectable existential presences encroaching and in the center of the radar is the lyric I sweeping its adjacent experience.