Writer. Demand Poet.
If I seem distracted lately, it’s all for an excellent cause.
I’ve been stringing for the Hersam Acorn publication, The Stratford Star. You can click through here to the site to read all of my stories if you are interested… Read the rest “In the News, in the news”
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I am in a kitchen in Ontario
And the house is packed in
With family and around with
Snow, and even more so by
Farmland and emptiness. It’s
March, my mother-in-law’s birthday
A day we’ve made as a holiday… Read the rest “My Father-in-Law’s Dishes”
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Google can you spare me a
A chance encounter with
Life? I keep wandering around
Your innards, picking at
Scabs and chewing on old
Gum stuck under old
Search results somehow unable to
Recall what I came here for … Read the rest “Area Attractions”
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I fly by you
On the way to pickup.
On a stranger’s
Lawn, you assemble yourself
Into a web of
Neon yellow straps–
The harness to
Hold you here on this earth,
Up there,
In the arms of
One … Read the rest “Harness – small stone”
Those afternoon hours seem as if they should be endless.
Miles and miles to fill before dinner and dad.
We drop our bags on the bench, and
We set our feet free, and I don’t have to say
Go play… Read the rest “To the Repair Station”