Writing on Pluto

Last night, I attended a performance of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver. I say ...

Louise is publishing two poems in September, one online and one in a print anthology. She is finally happy with a poem of hers that someone ...

I am your healer when even your healers are poisoning me. I relax you when you are nearly too tired to reach me. You don't have to w...

It is a surprise to me how little I breathe, normally. It's like I've forgotten to breathe or am adapted to a biorhythic habit of sc...

What more poetic than running your life based on your intuition? The whole body is involved in intuition as it is in writing the metaphors t...

It's spring, and the ocean is glowing cold, as the now brighter, hotter rays of the sun beat down on it. Eagles are a common sight,...

The squirrels are coming; they're walking; they're running; the squirrels are pelting; they're swarming; they're funning;...

The strange thing about death is not the body, but the mind. The body wears and is ready, knows its seasons accepts is fine,...

Antique Cloth  My dishcloths need a funeral. After three and half years of steady service in my latest apartment, they are getting a l...

Right now I want, an eclair and a coffee. I already had  tea with double cream and a croissant with agave syrup for breakfast, but like the ...

The lawyers' names were Ben and Jerry, an unwittingly incestuous gay couple who had no idea they  were fraternal twins separated at bi...

A friend falls away  like a wet leaf of paper maché,  falls away the way leaves always fall away,  every leaf, it seems, but the eve...

The sky has regained its stars and snowflakes reflect their sparkle.

I have a string of flowers They hang around my neck. The other girls wear gold and pearls, but I say what the heck!

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Note the way the suspect touches the police officer's toes with his soft paws and closes his eyes as if too inwardly-oriented to perpet...

This topic is no joke in most places on the North American continent, but Vancouver is a tough city; it's an expensive city. As an art...

A slight gas exhaust in  the kitchen breezes, crows and sparrows, cool, gold-green jungle; dishes pile up. Young women whoop; drying p...

I don't see why the buffalo herds can't be regenerated. There's lots of grass. Just let loose a bunch of buffalo of both genders...

This is no day to list among the number of our summer days, this day that's trapped inside a static mote of sand dust.

Love is real; love is true; love exists right alongside the other spiritual forces and despite a lot of them. Love is.

It is all very well, to tell, to tell, to see, to think, to live on the brink. It is all very well, the same old story, hard and gory. It...

Shared Solitude Do you ever like to be alone unplug the phone make them think that you're not home on yo...

A perfect poinsettia twig grows,  three years old twig, and well; a perfect poinsettia leaf holds well  out its l...

You can substitute your own meditative practice, whatever that means for you, but when I sometimes have bouts of middle-of-the-night insom...

A writer should have a favourite cafe. Mine is a no-brainer. It's Coco and Olive at Broadway and Collingwood.  I hear the mell...

It may be cool weather for the time of year, annoying would-be sunbathers, but it's ideal for plant and  animal life. Early in the spr...

It's not a nightmare, it's just night, in the milky way galaxy turned away from the glare of the sun with a back alley view on i...

Cowslips

i. Seed pipe cleaner strands of birch flower, pipe cleaners hanging down and the sweet, grape-bunch seed of flower on the maple. How do...

There is a dragon, mauve, gray and pink, that lives in a cavern in the Rocky Mountains. It sleeps there like a cat, but when it wakes up it ...

I don't know. Do not ask. I've never had a red-fringed dress, wasn't allowed the fringe much less the fabric, but still I...

The inhabitants--as on a ship beat by a succession of wild waves, between which wait quiet troughs-- dance to their enormous joy on ever...

There was a brainless dog and one day it went out without its helpers. A pack of clever and voracious dogs started chasing it down the side...

I am seared by the purity of winter's black midnight.

In February, let's make a storm of white soap. Let's make an antelope.

There is a big house, maybe an inheritance to someone, a wealthy house. It's like an old movie with Gregory Peck, so a character with a ...

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The Mythic Function: at all times we are addressing the mystery, in contact with daily life.

February 13. Yay. Great. All I feel like doing is lying around eating. I'm getting a belly. I quit worrying about my diet. Went to chu...

On a day like today, when the snow coils slowly down from the clouds, and the sky is light brown. The ocean has stopped, the city is mute, ...

the bare curving limbs whizzened into lyric

Because this apartment, this blind, this bird- box with mufti quilts at the windows against the street light, this sturdy stand against ...

I don't get fat, not a bit. I look fit.  I don't get fat.  I don't get anything that doesn't look good.  Not at all, ...

Today, I am a section of a worm, and a crow is croaking out a little sandpaper scratch into the fluid mist of my day, a little fingernai...

I am becoming convinced that there is some other slice of reality that would suit me entirely well, and this isn't it.

The thieving poet and that sort of stuff. Man, what a lousy duck... And poetry and poets are about love, but money is tied in to us, money f...

Virgil: An expression. Beatrice: Again? You'll sprain your face. Virgil: I mean a verbal expression.

Now this was a blustering version of sloth that we've never seen, as she scares the moth off from beside and between, a whirling and tw...

Like a feather, I am weighed down by the weather.

Sometimes parts of you may not survive indefinitely, if they are not befriended. Well, they survive, but they go sadly dormant. You can mis...

The clouds like plumes of cream in tea  and we walking around on the bottom of the cup waiting for some god to drink us up.

Can you fail to gape at the size of some of the magnolia blooms that crack their bud shells in Vancouver in springtime?

Cherish January, white and quiet in the seasons' pause and stillness. Silently cheer the heart of January, myriad stars in the chill ...

That's because I'm a Morkus. MORKUS, spelled morkus; backwards: sukrom...you know...

Transformation isn't an absolute good or an absolute anything. Being alive is a process of transformation we can't halt. One day I a...

the stunning fact that I am teaching at UBC in less than two weeks. What more is there to work towards? I can hardly want anything else. I a...

Every area accommodates a different art. The light in the kitchen is phenomenally beautiful during the brighter days.

Keep it simple so you don't wind up with phlalocyanine green in your next sandwich!

Connecting with God, that's what the seventh chakra is about, and it may be the case, as with Darl Bundren of Faulkner's "As I ...

She wore a dress of many ribbons that curved like feathers, with one lip pink stripe in the center of each curling one and pastel turquoise ...

Oprah talked once about "textures of joy". Living the life of a poet provides me interior and exterior landscapes of joy. As a mat...

Who said there's no money (read: reward) in an Arts degree? Tonight, at the awesome Robson Reading Series, I won the children's book...

I heard a good description of the condition of love relationships, or the basis on which people in general in the first world seek love rela...

So I worked on my window box instead :)

The igniting Rita Wong talked for an hour to an inexplicably drowsy looking audience at Irving K. Barber Learning Center on Thursday afterno...

Purity is not a natural state, but to accept, to enter the fray is it a matter of how much degradation one can take.

Stimulate, trigger action, trigger desire and the whole machine, the ferris wheel, the roller coaster, the mechanics of the great steam engi...

Sometimes an upside down cake looks like an upside down cake!

A delighted, connected, blissful little audience tonight at the Robson Reading Series at UBC downtown. There was something special, and rare...

(In astrology, it's Jupiter that lends extra vitality to an organism.) The dahlias are budding again, and again, and blooming. It is ...

This recipe is so good because of the relationship between the ingredients and the presence of some no fail staples. It certainly isn't...

To me, relaxed space means a balance of order and chaos.

As of a few weeks ago, I finally had given away, sold, or recycled anything I wasn't using so that there is not too much stuff for this ...