Monthly Archives: December 2017

(Keats’ death-mask) Many, of course, though more for individual poems: Dickinson Keats Shakespeare Whitman Frost Tennyson Blake Auden Lampman (the lone Canadian, for his excellent nature poems–best nature poet Canada ever produced) Some larger poems of late; Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” … Continue reading →

from the past..

(previously posted on December 17, 2013) Full moon! A found picture and unsent note from Dean McKenzie, The Legend, in 1992. Spiritus (an Edmonton performance poetry trio): Dean on right, Glen Kirkland in the middle, and me on the left). … Continue reading →

(found art installation by RD) “Otherwise” is a reflective poem by Jane Kenyon in which the poet looks at her life and appreciates various details and aspects–many of them sensuous–knowing that one day her life will be different, greatly circumscribed, … Continue reading →

Russia America country false fake news fire/d I /me big great Small, repetitive vocab and simple syntax=small brain=12 Diet Cokes a day, too much McDonalds and KFC and pizza Twitter: the preferred platform of the limited.

The NY terrorist who blew himself up today with his own bomb sounds suspiciously like Stevie who’s ‘not all there’ and blows himself up at Greenwich Observatory in Conrad’s The Secret Agent (1907), a classic so much ahead of its … Continue reading →

What Trump drinks. Enough caffeine to keep him going in his 70s. He also watches 4-8 hrs. of tv a day, looking for references to himself. He gets uptight when he doesn’t see his name on air much. for days. … Continue reading →

“Context is all” said John Updike. If you ever hope to have perspective on anyone or anything, it is context information that is basic and necessary. My mother was a hard-working farm girl existing in a typically poor, large Northern … Continue reading →

The Bishop’s Wife, 1947, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven with Monty Woolley and James Gleason in strong supporting charming roles. This is the tale of a bishop (Niven in one of his best-ever roles) who is obsessively … Continue reading →

c.f. Donald Duck cartoons.