Marilynne Robinson and a red-tailed hawk – regaining inwardness
From a window where I sit with a coffee and Marilynne Robinson’s “Absence of Mind,” I see a red-tailed hawk making those wide circles that red-tailed hawks make...
Category: Writing
A poem in praise of Mrs. Pinder
O how you rose in your chair, pinned me with an aggrieved glare, in front of our grade-two class. Your august flesh pendulous with seriousness, my inner-ducklin...
To all the late and wavering poets
Your fledgling faith is beginning to paint lines,extruding mute colours,flickering images. But the light in you is brittle,it quavers like crystal,threatens to ...
The Road is How – Trevor Herriot
Trevor Herriot continues to write some of the best nature literature around. His three previous books – Grass, Sky, Song, (which earned him a nomination for the...