Today a woman of no measurable age stopped me
to ask where she could buy some meat, and her eyes
filled up with tears when it seemed too far or impossible…
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This new poem of mine appeared this summer in The Literary Review of Canada. “Is it Safe?”
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Venice Journals is an excerpt of a manuscript in progress, of poems and photographs. It was published in May 2020 just as Venice was stepping out of quarantine. I share it with much respect for that wounded and wondrous city.
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A new poem, “The Future,” written for The Litter I See Project.
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“Happiness is coming for me unexpectedly from the sky somewhere over Thunder Bay, 1125 miles from where I’m heading, 10AM on the wing.”
A new poem in Queen’s Quarterly: “Happiness.”
Last summer I was invited by The Brave Festival of Risk and Failure at Harbourfront to write poems for people on the spot. About 40 folks came over several days and I asked what they needed a poem for and then I wrote it. And then they took it and walked away.
At the start of my shift on the second day, a man was waiting there, eager. No excited. So into it, it made me nervous.
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Two new poems in the summer issue of Juniper Magazine. Here's a bit from the first one called, "Speak Heart."
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