February 2014
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
This is a collaborative poem by one American and two Australian poets that explores Gerard Manley Hopkins’s philosophical themes found both in his poetry and in the personal struggles of his inner life.
Wading into the Ocean
we are on our travels with the remains of conversations we almost had, promises cracked through the middle, wrapped in the cloth that blinds us
Story… Unfinished…
The moon’s not yet quite there, and the buildings are hideous, at most a woman on the corner, or a student lost in sartre and making the world’s riddles
Heritage
By the time their sons learn the meaning of sunset, only father’s hands remain, and the plow and the field.
The Art of Chrysanthemums
Today I raked a melody with syllables culled from your lips. But I miss you when you gather chrysanthemums each morning;
The Echo of Titus
It was New Year’s Day at eight in the morning when I looked out the window, hung over and blurry-eyed, to see my neighbour, Ivy…
Mansfield Park
Homing “So, you like it?” Navin asked Puja as they got into the car. “Mansfield Park…” Puja tossed the name into the air. “It is…
Uncle Bernie’s House
I stepped into the living room of my Uncle Bernie’s modest bungalow near Islington and Bloor. The banana yellow walls of the quaint room gave…