How to Belong be Alone It all begins with knowing nothing lasts forever, so you might as well start packing now. In the meantime, practice being alive. There will be […]

NO SUCH THING AS THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER Silence rides shotgun wherever hate goes. Andrea Gibson from You Better Be Lightning, Button Publishing Inc., 2021 I was grateful to find this […]

Late Fragment And did you get what You wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself Beloved on […]

                                          A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way […]

(All artwork images in this post with permission and Copyright David Blackwood Inc.) On July 2nd, the nationally and internationally acclaimed Canadian/Newfoundland artist David Blackwood(1941-2022) died at home in Port […]

Here is the great paradox of poetry and of the imaginative arts in general. Faced with the brutality of the historical onslaught, they are practically useless. Yet they verify our […]

In a series of synchronistic events a poem I wrote has come back to me more than thirty years after I wrote it and almost twenty years since I had […]

An Erasure This thing happened, a virus, yes, but more, than a virus…the mighty kneel, the world halts, trying to stitch future to past, refusing the rupture, the rupture, this […]

THE DIVINER Cut from the green hedge a forked hazel stick That he held tight by the arms of the V: Circling the terrain, hunting the pluck Of water, nervous, […]