Poem shaped like a garden trowel
This is a poem that didn’t make it into the chapbook (There Are No Small Moments) because it was too long to fit on a single page and the publisher didn’t want ...
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Remembrance Day isn’t easy
Remembrance Day always brings conflicting thoughts. It’s not an easy day. Not easy because I will not be ungrateful for the sacrifices made in war, but I&...
Summer holidays–over the shoulder
Sun rolling over boats in the bay, the lake like glass under a lone rower, the scull, a thin watery wedge. Breach of rainbow trout, screech of an osprey, wind o...
The man remembers the boy
The boy is skinny, big-eyed, big-eared, likes being outside. He is attentive to little shifts of light, of colour, of wind, of harmonies in prairie grasses. He ...