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Deeper

There was vibration a gentle buzz from head to toe when I heard your voice when I felt your arms around me It was at once more than lust and less than love of a different sort I don’t remember … Continue reading

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Dark Sky

Last night the sky was swollen with burgeoning tornadoes at our lakefront cottage on a hill the front room was full of dust-covered videos and you weren’t there at all. The storms never came but the sky stayed brown and … Continue reading

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Weightless

Sometimes I need to leave, to get away to be apart. To swim further than “as far as I can”. To let the water hold me. Times like now as you unearth loose memories the ‘missing you’ that was safely … Continue reading

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DON’T PANIC

Right.  How the hell am I not supposed to panic? I’ve been asked to read !?my own poetry?! at the upcoming poetry reading/opening of Artisan in Regina. I’ve been asked to share the stage with *real* poets who have *books* … Continue reading

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The Heavy-Hipped Moon and The River Made of Glass

last night a golden, low slungheavy-hipped moon peekedthrough naked branches,peeked at me and winked.She had a secret“it comes,” she whisperedthrough the leaves. the river snaked under her golden glowlong, dry grass chattered back:“it comes”the grass held no secrets,but the river,ah … Continue reading

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This is a Bad Night

Tonight, I found a pictureof a rocket ship from grade two.I worked really hard on thiswas written at the bottom. This was the rocket shipwe were going to paint on his bedroom wall, butmy hands were full with the new … Continue reading

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Out here

I happened to glance out the window this morning as I woke.Clouds, like tufts of soap bubbles, dotted the mountainside.Even mountains get bedhead, I thought. To the east, clouds embrace everything above the blue tin roofs at the ranchjust visible … Continue reading

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To The Nipper

Tuck-in time, with songs three songs; you’re sick.I stroked your hair backoff your hot, damp forehead,And caught a glimpse ofthe man you will become.Be good to others; if you have a good heartgoodness will follow you.Ask many questionslove often, and … Continue reading

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This is something else entirely

Here are some words just for you, then:When people say “it was just Hell”they don’t know what they’re talking about.Or maybe they do,but then they don’t know what Hell really is. you do. There is a storyit is a story … Continue reading

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Conversation in my head

Were I to take a lovertruly, take a loverWere it my place to have a loverI meananother lover Were I to have two loversreally, two different loversWere it my place to have two loversAgain,I’d choose you Why me? Why would … Continue reading

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