Above: A fall splash of colour on the Alberta Legislature grounds – seemingly firmly rooted, but, like many cultural truths, unsupportable when you look at them in a different context. In this post you’ll find: Opening an aged white whine. Chirps from the racist nest. Shouting At…Who? Awareness Tips Opening an Aged White Whine When…
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In this post you’ll find: A short discussion about snippets. A sad snippet. A snippet suggesting the value of sadness. A hopeful snippet. Sometimes ideas come to you as feelings or impressions. Sometimes they come with force, as words already formed. Sometimes they aren’t enough to furnish the structure or content for a complete poem,…
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With this cross we stake our claim Raise our stone god on the now broken land The river which poured us hungry, fierce across the prairies Now lolls at our feet One arm of this cross Thrusts west Peaks impregnable now train-tracked traced in children’s colouring books The other arm aims east, shoots the nodding…
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Photo credit Peter Law https://unsplash.com/@retepwal When I was a child I thought he was a giant With his arms he moved whole trees And animals tenfold his weight He lorded over – they went where he willed He worked from dawn to dusk And at his command Horizons changed from gold to black A humongous…
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