Commentary
We didn’t cross the border — the border crossed us
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Bantu Biko I remember. I […]
Article Tag: Poetry
Poetry
My Honour, Your Shame: Three Poems
Walls You tell me you are not like me. Nor am I like you, but obliterating my thoughts, my feelings, […]
Poetry
POROROCA
Pororoca Do you hear the lament of the deep riverwhere you played as a childlaughed when youngand in which you […]
Interview
Talking poetry: an interview with Michael Fraser
“Poetry’s appeal is rooted in emotion. It tends to chase people away whenever it becomes too cerebral.” Michael Fraser Author […]
Poetry
Chernobyl II, Stumbling Stones & Lockdown
Chernobyl II Revelation 8:10-11 “… the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they […]
Poetry
Lava Tube
There Was a Wind There was a wind blowing outside, a dog barking, flashing headlights. When your stomach turned […]
Poetry
Two Poems with Cut Fig
POEM OF THE UNFINISHED SANDWICH Tomato slice, white baladi cheese, rye, a bite taken from one […]
Poetry
Green String Beans
Green String Beans Long thin beans on slender stems, fresh, smooth velvet carefully picked, weighed, lifted. Carried them as […]
Poetry
The Orangery & The Lundu
And you’d ask: Why do you write about fetuses
and swallows, “Ciuri, Ciuri”? Flowers, Flowers.
Music
Patterns of My Father’s Voice
I wanted to make a soundscape with the rhythmic patterns of my father’s voice and cadence, as well as his poetic presentation.
Poetry
Echo of Experience
Social feeds serve bodies, bludgeoned and lynched.
Poetry
Emma’s Country
A girl could fall 40 years through time
Poetry
Razzle-Dazzle Ghazal and Ghosts of Mercy
to chase transgression, tussle demons in a private show
Poetry
Alive & Dead: The Ultimate Superposition
to escape—one last time—that worn-out chest
Poetry
Excerpt from 20/20
blows between earth and sky
Poetry
Wild Blueberries, Skin, & Edgar Ende’s “Cloth With Swallow” (1946)
A stilled world, living in frames?
Poetry
Winter Poems, Ahuntsic, Montréal
clenched muscles relax without warning
Poetry
Landscape of Abandonment
on the lake shuts tight
Poetry
My Animal Nature
Bring me flowers and bees.
Poetry
Sheets to Die For
sagging above the deep
Poetry
The Garden of Dutiful Women
Stardust and Moonlight: A Love Poem Beaches built of melted Sun. Iridescent air Lavender thoughts sprinkle Yearning on […]
Poetry
Dhrupad of Destruction
Dhrupad of Destruction I see Nataraja dancing on a lofty hill, to the sound of crushing ice, Melting glaciers […]
Poetry
Moment, arriving
Eocene Time of rising temperatures the dawn horse gallops on primitive hooves greeting the day’s heat with hunger and […]
Poetry
Dusk On Loukes Lake
Dusk On Loukes Lake (for Kathleen) thin spirits of mist rise immobile on a lake flooded to ice by the […]
Poetry
The Problem of Joy
Mitochondrial Eve A plague of poppies: salmon, tomato, apricot. Some years I save the seeds, audible in upright […]
Poetry
Touching on Tangents
Turbulence it’s not the breath, in or out not quite breath’s only the boundary sneaks past smooth ebbs on […]
Poetry
Cardinal Flower
Cardinal Flower Red flash— a few sprigs puncture the monotony of brown-green bog, never-ending evergreens and skeletons of cedar. […]
Poetry
Snow Is Falling
Snow Is Falling Snow is falling. The earth turns white. Its new skin is as smooth as silk. The […]
Poetry
Summernote V, Chernobyl, and Totenwald
Summernote V Call her goddess of heath and yellow gorse. Tell her you have left the moon unlit. […]
Poetry
Because I am my own
I am nobody else’s version of who I am You cannot set your mind based on my looks alone […]