My friend Shelley just shared with me a lovely poem by Anne Sexton, Snow. If you know this bright little ditty, you’ll recall at once its references to, for example, God’s socks… Sexton also describes snow as being “like bleached flies” – how would one ever know? Me, i’ve simply never seen a bunch of bleached…
Month: December 2013
Making Stew – Step One
The kitchen My father, hunched like a bear in his corner chair Battered grey metal teapot Three bag tea? Or just two? Old oak table, the altar of our home Upon it, holiday and mundane meals Butcher hogs, steers, deer from the hunt – one time a moose that Dad and old Bert used in…
Rhythm, Bikes and Poetry!
On November 30th, i was privileged to be part of the launch of a very special anthology, Sun & Snow 2013, the third edition of poetry anthologies produced by Rhythm International Foundation of Edmonton See more about their work here: http://www.rhythminternational.org Introducing me, the fabulous Titilope Sonuga (see her work here: http://titilope.ca/ ) commented that…
Prairiepomes 