get out from under god

cat's eye nebula

2011-04-24T18:09:00.000-07:00

will there be humans
five billion years from now
when our sun's a cat's eye

a cultural practice passes

2011-03-04T08:57:00.000-08:00

she has grown up
without a cookie jar

wonder

2011-03-04T08:55:00.000-08:00

let's not talk of disappointment
look at the sun so far north on the horizon
look at the moon hanging high even more northerly in this morning sky

double take

2011-03-04T07:45:00.000-08:00

cast a glance behind
mortality in tight pants
menopausal flares

the arms of a spiral galaxy

2011-02-19T07:17:00.000-08:00

I like how in space
distance is measured in years
how time becomes light

as we drove slowly by

2011-01-05T11:34:00.000-08:00

in my innocence
i looked into the crashed car
and saw blood-stained death

tilt

2010-11-20T15:33:00.000-08:00

when I was a child
I did not notice the slant
of the sidewalks.

swift fishes

2010-09-28T16:13:00.000-07:00

swift fishes gleaming
by lamplight underwater
do not pull the plug

Let's go to the Ex!

2010-09-03T05:04:00.000-07:00

three propeller planes
purring and low on their way
over the city

casual beverage

2010-08-24T16:06:00.001-07:00

treetop birds chatter
then, one mind, take to the sky
to stir the evening air

Hey!

2010-08-16T05:57:00.000-07:00

I felt Happy
in your arms.
I felt at Home
with you.
What the Hell Happened?!?!?

restful sleep

2010-08-11T21:21:00.000-07:00

to close eyes trusting
the night will bring restful sleep

settle in

2010-08-11T20:53:00.000-07:00

to feel so at home
with a reading light beside
an overstuffed armchair

amazing each and every time

2010-08-05T05:41:00.001-07:00

warbling in a tree.
flash of red! a cardinal
sings in my backyard.

horror

2010-08-04T05:13:00.000-07:00

how did this happen?!!
wrinkles! stifness! aches and pains!
while I was not looking.

gravity is warp in space/ time continuum

2010-07-18T06:36:00.000-07:00

last night, late night anxiety over no word from teenager
oh my daughter!
communicate communicate communicate communicate!!!!

humility

2010-07-18T06:28:00.000-07:00

the universe moves in slow motion
we are less than fruit flies

reverence

2010-07-10T09:21:00.000-07:00

sitting becalmed
trees that will take root anywhere
fill the yard with shade

out all night

2010-07-05T15:46:00.000-07:00

it's a sleepover
a tangle of teenage limbs
a pile of toddlers

road trip

2010-07-01T19:02:00.000-07:00

long shadows tell us
we are insignificant
passing the semi

Patience

2010-05-07T13:05:00.001-07:00

She boards the bus today, feeling friendly, wearing her best wool coat - navy blue with a hood.
She has her tea in a good solid mug, bag in.
She steps on seeking a companion. Among the limited selection of empty seats, she chooses one beside the woman most likely of Jamaican descent - even if she is not wearing a hat this fine Sunday.
She sits as the bus jerks ahead. Tea sloshes in her uncovered mug. She brushes some drops from the lap of her coat, "Oh dear, this is my only coat."
She speaks in a clear friendly tone.
Her chosen traveling companion understands this need to talk out loud, so listens.
The bus crawls in traffic.

pace

2010-04-11T08:35:00.000-07:00

the morning light dawns.
pick up my sorry carcass,
start another day.

Decapitation

2010-04-04T11:01:00.000-07:00

I don't have a mop
I do have a useless stick
The floors stay dirty

bliss

2010-04-03T21:11:00.000-07:00

my sheets were dried on the clothesline
tonight I sleep in the sunshine

poem from a failed dream

2010-04-02T04:37:00.000-07:00

they say you'll die if you die in your dreams
how can we know this?

rolled up pill bug small
eyes open to white blindness.
asleep. and dying?

good morning!

2010-04-01T04:57:00.000-07:00

anger has taken
up permanent residence
in my lower back

missed something

2010-03-21T08:05:00.000-07:00

I keep bumping up
against the feeling I am
just now waking up

crop circle

2010-02-12T16:22:00.000-08:00

what did I know then
supine in the tall grasses
sun. wind. skin. being.

rainbow

2010-02-09T08:57:00.001-08:00

the colour of giving up
is not the colour of failure

2010-02-09T08:36:00.000-08:00

at the very end
of a life of starts it's all
finished busy-ness

dinner anyone?

2010-01-24T17:53:00.000-08:00

there's no evidence
of my butchery of fish
folded into crust

mourning

2009-07-22T19:00:00.000-07:00

this poem is a bucket
of dirty soapy water
that cleaned the floor

accepting the evening

2009-05-04T20:54:00.000-07:00

quiescent
advesperate
soulfullofgrace
end of day

wrath

2009-04-18T03:36:00.000-07:00

the whites are
temporarily
pink

red run rampant in the wrong wash

acedia (sloth)

2009-04-17T12:21:00.000-07:00

with horrifying clarity
I have come to realize that I am only fit
to live with my mother

internets

2009-04-01T06:06:00.000-07:00

alone in the glow
sitting clicking wishing for
connectedness to

avarice

2009-01-09T16:17:00.000-08:00

you have always been
embarrassed
by your own efforts

+

this has been
compounded
by your efforts
so often coming to
_____________

naught

exes and oh!s

2008-08-03T04:32:00.001-07:00

were I to marry again
I would wear muslin
and stand barefoot in a meadow
I do, with dirt between my toes

ecce homo

2008-06-03T20:11:00.000-07:00

behold! here's the man!
crawls into bed at daybreak!
hits the sheets, snoring.

after the deluge

2008-05-03T20:04:00.000-07:00

theta mon

2008-04-08T09:47:00.000-07:00

the wind bumps up against the stuff of life
& things push back
thumping in the night

a blessing for st patty's day, not my own

2008-03-17T14:23:00.000-07:00

May joy and peace surround you,
Contentment latch your door,
And happiness be with you now
And bless you evermore.

restless

2008-03-08T04:18:00.000-08:00

from dreams fraught with peril,
pitfalls and triumphs,
to an awakening:
to what extent this life has been formed by
restlessness

plague

2008-02-20T08:53:00.000-08:00

this morning smelled like skunk
all morning the helicopter's drone
narrated burning buildings on an old city block

looking for the falcon in the park

2008-02-18T07:57:00.000-08:00

a life lived like a loose balloon
untethered
unbeholden
to

De mortuis nil nisi bonum: speak only good of the dead.

2008-02-18T07:52:00.000-08:00

rather eloquently
the man in the camel coat swaggers
to a stop
and wags his jaw at the traffic light
with a fifth of clear liquid dangling
hanging off the end of his arm
*
070316 9.30 dundas/bathurst eastbound streetcar
even from this distance, I figure his eyes must be limpid

heathen

2007-12-29T18:48:00.000-08:00

sunrise in the park
the bare limbs of the large maple
glow ember red

family

2007-10-08T19:58:00.000-07:00

what is unnerving
is the prevailing notion
of its primacy
~
the food was good enough

gluttony

2007-10-07T20:55:00.000-07:00

salivating in
anticipation of
thanksgiving dinner

reincarnation

2007-09-28T22:01:00.001-07:00

sloth

2007-09-28T09:54:00.000-07:00

end of summer flies buzz purposefully back and forth inside the closed window
the dog disappeared at the word 'bath'
so I sit here, listening

envy

2007-09-27T08:33:00.001-07:00

the neighbour's garden, I like it better, the feng shui must be right
even with the rubbish and the burrs gone brown and clingy, it still appeals
things are just in their right places
my garden offers moments of satisfaction
but mostly it aches to be otherwise

a flying squirrel

2007-09-25T06:30:00.000-07:00

a bushy tail silhouette with an impressive wingspan
climbing towards the clouds
breaching the treetops
a peregrine with a black squirrel dangling