Category Archives: Poetry

Whitecaps

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Francois Lachance

t tsk tusk great gust And so for day 145 08.05.2007

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Feather Tales

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Cur care for the rage attention to the tread straying into the wagging courage tales where felines collect a surfeit of tongues from eager children wanting to know how to co-replicate the rooster’s many sounds including dirt scratching across the … Continue reading →

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Spring haiku

Posted on April 8, 2007 by Francois Lachance

one ice-rival pearl precocious snowdrop snout sniffing light’s return And so for day 115 08.04.2007

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Driftweed

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Phyllis Webb in Sunday Water: Thirteen Anti Ghazals invites the reader to Hear the atoms ambling, the genes a-tick in grandfather’s clock, in the old bones of beach. driftweed is perhaps what the beach washes up but wave upon rushing … Continue reading →

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Spottings

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Snowdrops spotted in the back garden by DWR. And a composition in his honour: tap drop running bucket sap tipping kettle thickening bottlefuls and bottlefuls of maple guile It is like a little haiku that ran away on the wings … Continue reading →

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Riddles

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Francois Lachance

snowward swords       compass needles And so for day 77 01.03.2007

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kennings in haiku

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Francois Lachance

fierce hand knows no ire at the end of a taut line tugs wind riding kite and so for day 70 22.02.07

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Spam maps spans

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Sometimes the spam email comes across in the form of a nice surreal poem. Take for instance these two lines which appeared juxtaposed as the subject headers of two separate messages in my inbox one day. uxorious toothache boiled stovepipe … Continue reading →

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clip

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Impasse triggers imagination. Obstacles are tackled by the detour of description. Take two lines from Sybil Turnbull: under backward leaning birches like scarecrow handwriting against the sky Further through mudra and mantra, with a pose acting as an antenna to … Continue reading →

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Berth

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Francois Lachance

if endings are where reimagining begins even prose poems especially poems with ragged margins warn readers to be careful of tripping over take “two women in a birth” out of Daphne Marlatt & Betsy Warland Double Negative are off the … Continue reading →

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