Monthly Archives: April 2019

changing. ‘Normal’ doesn’t live here anymore.

Wayson Choy (1939-2019).

Something about nonchalantly throwing a leg over the top of guard-rail 25 stories up creating your own story– the hero of imagined possibility; no one else about to stop or question you about the legalities of such, inching slowly down … Continue reading →

In the fall we drift along the tree-lined streets of unfamiliar places. Leaves cover everything: sleepy cars and houses sidewalks and our coats. My son drags his foot beside the curb like a street-cleaner, but even he admits we could … Continue reading →

(for my daughter Heather) The poet is in the garden. He has come to hear your dreams to bless your green endeavours. He speaks to you in earth-tones many sounding strange to your ears. A bird sings of the cedars. … Continue reading →

True, it gets soiled now and then and after fall, with snow. Eventually ice, then waiting for beak-pecked memory. Spring’s first robin– full, the mirror bath catches eyes alike, revives new stock. So someone refills it–it is, after all, expected. … Continue reading →

You were such a long time coming, but better late than never. A moonshadow that quieted birds and chilled the air. Startled I was at the hole above that opened in the clouds. Your dark magic enveloped me and released … Continue reading →

My new poetry phase confirmed using my own photographs with my poems and prose. Image and words fused in new hybrids. Chant for Pilgrims (prose poem version) (Castile, Spain) In the musty cloister corridors of Santo Domingo are the voices … Continue reading →

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” -Sydney J. Harris “It takes four seasons to know one year.” -Anonymous “Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” -Democritus “In the midst … Continue reading →

“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” -Gustave Flaubert “Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.” -Victor Hugo “I go to nature to be soothed and … Continue reading →