Just off the trail among the quills of the birches the porcupine had settled, comfortably into its final business. It looked like a fur hat abandoned in the snow melt …

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Another spring cracks open on the rocks as the seagull drops living mussels on stone shore, alights to tear the flesh. I know the fierce gull. I know the creature …

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yodelling for no one and / ignoring us, the collectors

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The cat’s paw keeps getting bigger. Soon we will have to give it a name. At the vet, the young receptionists all laugh. Tell us it’s perfectly natural though they …

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If every event on the calendar went sim-saima-sima-lo with dead leaves and a black boy and a black girl snaking their thighs towards dawn with or without moonlight falling on …

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the light stretched and tangy, up on its horse and riding through the ripening meadows, buzzing the leaves and the birds who’ve been at it for hours. Light that in …

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The swarm came as puckers in smooth song, the swarm from your father’s heart, that is to say, not directly from his heart, but from his ability, his responsibility which …

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Then we came out in numbers. As Canadians we came out in numbers with flags. With flags aloft and hooting we stepped out in anger and in numbers. In numbers …

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As a storm-lopped tree corrects its shape over a few green seasons, so time closes around the hole in itself left by the terrible event. (in the quiet room suddenly …

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