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Ticker Tape and Marching Bands
I’m in the corner of the living room
4-year-old me
standing behind a curtain, with a softening red balloon
stuck to a length of Hot Wheels track
flexible yellow plastic that bends when held at … Continue reading
While Crossing the Field Today in November's fading garden a female cardinal surprises us, that bright beak amongst the bossy jays: a coral and flax stab of restrained light in the midst of rowdy blue baubles. Then the walk through… Continue reading
(inspired by a frantic surprise visit on july 20, 2019, photo documented here by David James Swanson)
100 northern lights staggered southerly as strangers
bedded shoulder-to-shoulder on cooling concrete
shrink-wrapped in wakeful dreams
perspiration a running creek along sacrum
lava … Continue reading
A broken-down wagon
is a precursor
for the rest of the day.
Moan in pain,
clutch your side
as if your appendix
is about to flop out
like a flailing
psycho doll.
Trucks and cars … Continue reading
tofino sunrise, 7am
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last night i couldn’t sleep / a march storm rankled ashore / soldering doubt neck deep
harmonies echoed in the void / i tried to sing along in … Continue reading
In Memory of the Barho children, lost in a fire, February 19, 2019, Halifax, N. S.
How a floor has nothing to say
is really about a lack of listening,
a lack of hearing, is … Continue reading
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