Poetry
impact
One passenger believed it was her husband, / the ship’s jolt just another expression of their love. / Others thought it was an earthquake / or a mishap in the galley— /...
slip
fall backwards repeat the past / try to hang onto the present close your eyes / on the edge of saying something, chaos / tiptoe / matter divides the brain, frayed neuron...
wishing well
My fist holds as many coins / as I can carry. All are stamped with the Queen’s effigy; / Elizabeth, D. G. Regina, the resident of pockets, / a woman I’ve never...
Matrimony
i. The Mud Wife / / A green thumb for certain, though / a poor hand with a broom. She limps / when it rains, but fears the fire in /...
Sleepingblue
The night before I leave there is a storm. Wind, a train / down Nevsky that runs past us before we can turn / to see what it is. Street dirt bites...
windfarm
West of Fort Macleod, where Highway 3 / twists through the Foothills toward the Crowsnest Pass / row upon row of huge metal pillars / have been erected on the ridgelines, or...
deux poèmes
poème / Toute une semaine / sur les derniers détails / / les plus grands ravages / ne viennent pas des hautes eaux / / ici faisons en sorte /...
oliver chronicle
If you show George a picture of the Oliver Chronicle / on Highway 97 that you took when you drove / up from Osoyoos he will make you say / uh-saw-yuss until...
winter solistice, 2002 (excerpts)
I. / A green barbed phantom, / dotted with red and glitter / stands in metal, filled with water; / four screws gouge its trunk, / erect it / in the family...