The Calgary Herald has included an excerpt of one of my poems, “Driving North on Highway 43,” in issue three, “The North: Charging Ahead,” of its Discovering Alberta magazine series. One of the special features on the website is a podcast of me reading the complete poem. Driving North on Highway 43 1. the first [...]
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Driving North on Highway 43
Posted in News, Poems on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Siffleur Falls
Posted in Poems on April 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
rushing water pushes through the canyon past cavities pounded out of rock the breeze catches droplets from the froth carries them up, waters moss & tenacious trees clinging to the cliff at the place just before the stream plunges into this fierce display a girl stands on a wet rock to get a better view
Going out into
Posted in Poems on April 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s two o’clock: the woman gazes out into the storm, wind driving the snow into deep drifts along fences. You know, he said that morning before going out into the blizzard to check the cattle huddled behind the wind-break he built three summers ago, while she, sipping ice-tea, sat under the maples, listening to the [...]
Drought
Posted in Poems on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
her garden an oasis beans indifferent to absent rains grow a jungle peas reach curling tendrils from the top of chicken wire new potatoes swell beneath lush plants the neighbour women leave their lawn chairs while she is in the house stand at the garden’s edge marvel my peas says one are only this high [...]
