What you hope for in a barista in any economy
is a greeting and a smile and reasonable attentiveness.A comment of good will, yes, that’s always nice.Really, anything more than the perfunctory is lovely:“Goo...
Category: Poetics
Identification papers – thoughts on Benjamin Hertwig’s chapbook, The Slow Wars
Identification papers for Benjamin Hertwig The park is weeping yellow leaves—a lace of loose and wandering flames. An old man by the dry pond has tak...
A woman on the Queen of Oak Bay complains of men
The picture is from Clover Point in Victoria, the following poem is from a ferry crossing—Departure Bay to Horseshoe Bay—while listening to Garden State soundtr...
A deer in the clearing
Earlier in the year, while still “weed inspecting,” I had a sort of engagement with the white-tailed deer in this picture. I’ve never been anything like a “whis...