The New Colonialism
Legend has it that Jimi Hendrix released a mating pair, an Adam and Eve, from the balcony of his Carnaby Street apartment in the ’60s. Others claim they flew the …
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Grandfather
Edward James Coles (1872-1951) His father died in 1884 in one of the family’s Somerset farmbuildings (a few years ago I was allowed into the main house for seven minutes …
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Finalist for the 2016 Walrus Poery Prize Wenesh aw? Who is that? I know her not, the girl she is today, hard lines drawn by a world that forced her …
Read MoreOn Being Threatened Over Red Willow Park
Finalist for the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize St. Albert, Alberta The black patina of wood tar stinks and sticks to the soles of our shoes as Matthew and I follow …
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Experiment
If you can’t be conduit to the novel, then at least recycle experiments proven to please the judging panel’s inner child as it wanders, agog, the gallery of triptych bristol …
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Glinda the Good Is Gone
A crosswind, the Norway’s leaves flash like sunfish in a man-made pond. Still waiting for someone to ask whether I believe in God. Maple keys footnote the ground. As a …
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Details seem to leave me the moment I want to write them, your soft round cheek now on my shoulder. How the doctors cut you out of me as if …
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