Monthly Archives: October 2006

Remembrance at the War Museum

[This is an experiment in Sapphic stanzas. I have revised it twice since I first posted it. I wrote it, obviously, after a moving visit, October 11, to Gallery 3 at the War Museum in Ottawa. Gallery 3 features events … Continue reading

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scenes

The wheelbarrow full of loam lightly mixed with peat moss composted sheep manure the round-mouth spade rides jiggles gently atop and stops near the newly edged bed * * * Heat sings cicadic in the afternoon inverted book churches gardener’s … Continue reading

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Lookout

Sun slopes low through Boston ivy leaves festooning the window where I wait. Traffic drones, chatty radio sputters in the kitchen: North Korea’s a-bomb is the indignation of the nation. The blue berries on the ivy, relative of some grape … Continue reading

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