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The author of this poem has a quandary: Must I fight for my wife’s desire for yellow blooms when my neighbors’ tomatoes will stunt and blight in shade? Always the same story: two people, one tree, not enough land or … Continue reading →

First and Last … Laments the hellebore blush has turned to rust a haiku? a death poem? April 2020, Toronto Lachance & Robinson I told this to a man who said I was inhuman, for giving animals my first lament. … Continue reading →

Jean-Paul Bavard An appreciation for an early reader — associating a face to a name — hoping there will be time for the grain of the voice beyond the page https://www.facebook.com/pg/Jean-Paul-Bavard-1437022473044768/posts/?ref=page_internal Back in 1999 Jean-Paul Bavard mentioned and quoted my … Continue reading →

Thinking for rhythm and how we control our feedback loops… zippers and buttons are for people who move slow straws are for tube riders sucking it up by gross or fine sipping How is a zipper like a straw? And … Continue reading →

“Butter” Andrea Cohen It was that sad: a butter cow without a butter calf. Nearby I spied a butter motorcycle, motorcycle- sized, a mechanical afterthought I thought the cow might have liked to ride. You don’t drive a motorcycle; you … Continue reading →

i am my own student a veritable portable classroom And so for day 2751 25.06.2014

I Ching Hexagram 62 When a bird flies too high, its song is lost. Two pieces from a little stroll through the oracle online and through an ally way in my physical neighbourhood in Toronto. Two pieces spliced. A rudimentary … Continue reading →

Ever notice that there is “tea” in “teacher”? I can drink to that. Slowly or gulp quickly. Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves — slowly, evenly, without rushing … Continue reading →