Slow Jazz and Anticipation – A Poem for Deb on her Birthday
When I saw you on the patio, the wind filling and turning the umbrella above you, and you smiled at me as I rounded the bicycle stand, something like the tuggin...
Author: stephen t berg
Majesty at Tillicum Mall
A mother with two boys make their way across a parking lot to the entrance of the mall. The boys are dressed in white sweaters, hair combed, shoes clean. They w...
Grow Mercy’s year-end list of gentle propositions
That a word of mercy is a tender embrace; that to be human is to be, at any given moment, filled with joy, angst, wonder, madness, sorrow, want, majesty, misery...
Jesus was born in Saskatchewan
Jesus was born in Saskatchewan, that is, in what is now known as Saskatchewan, about 60 km west of Wynyard near the ghost town of Amulet, which is on the tradit...