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Franklin, 2.0
It’s only the beholder’s eye, you’ve said, that makes you do the things you do— giving an appellation to every roach that’s crossed...
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Jul 161 min read
As Spring Yields to Summer
I only see her when she’s out, the woman across the way, pushing her lawnmower that has no engine, the grating of squeaky wheels, its...
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Jul 81 min read
Profanity
You’d never sworn before in your life, no matter the pain from the hammer on your thumb; the dolts who cut you off in traffic; that...
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Jul 71 min read
Memes, or Now It’s Called Eswatini
There’s supposedly a desk at the airport in Vienna, for travellers arriving there in err, mistaking Austria for Australia, dressed...
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Jun 292 min read
Dinosaurs, or If It Weren’t for Adolf Hitler
I owe my grand existence to a jagged asteroid— to a circle that surrounds the Yucatan, the crater of Chicxulub; to all the fossils who...
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Jun 221 min read
Humidex 54
We hear it’s getting hotter, our eyes that look to the atmosphere alight; our star's becoming brighter we surmise, though it isn’t even...
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Jun 11 min read
Sailing
The love poem that I’ve scribed for you is inside an empty bottle, Peller Estates, 2024, wine from an evening that you say we touched and...
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May 291 min read
Upon Hearing My Haiku Is Pointless
What’s the point of Layers of grey cloud are leaving the landscape wet Ducklings in the grass a literary critic asked me, saying who...
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May 241 min read
Not Another Fucking Poem About A Tree
There are too many poems about trees. How leaves bud in April, bloom in May. How birds bound on branches, lilting each lifting of the...
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May 212 min read
Ad Magnam Ultimo
I’m so invisible here I’m starting to think I’m one of those dead people who don’t know they’re dead at least that’s what I typed, on...
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Apr 122 min read
Like Darwin Among the Gods
Christmas, and the word became flesh on our scribbled, Scrabble board, an empty bottle of wine and a record strumming chords so calm in...
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Feb 231 min read
Silenzio
The g in Paglioni is apparently silent, with the i the sound of e (robbing it of a kingly lion’s mane), while the e itself is long and...
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Feb 31 min read
Achilles
The name our friend has chosen for her mastiff is sublime. We wait to hear the inevitable: Achilles, heel! Almost invulnerable, were it...
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Feb 21 min read
Rumours
These juicy pineapple tidbits are up to speed with the latest gossip or so I quip, as we divvy them up in bowls, one for you and one for...
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Nov 3, 20231 min read
Untitled
I asked if you’d come up with a name for the poem you’ve been writing and you answered not yet, annoyed by my response: great title,...
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Oct 30, 20231 min read
Bistro de Montréal
You’re hesitant to check the bill of fare, note de frais it says in padded vinyl, recalling as a girl you’d ordered consommé, after your...
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Sep 3, 20231 min read
“me too”
When I tell you I love you you answer "me too" and perhaps I misconstrue, that you love yourself like the affirmations advise, the...
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Aug 28, 20231 min read
Longing for Charlton Laird
The best thesaurus I’ve ever had (and yes, I’ll admit that I use one, that I can’t fire off five-hundred thousand words from the front of...
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Aug 22, 20231 min read
Barky McBarkface
is mailing it in today, his half-assed ruff a far cry from his usual barrage of WO-WO-WO-WO- WOOFF!!! when his teeth are keenly bared,...
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Jul 29, 20231 min read
Sister Doreen
Sister Doreen paced up and down the rows between our desks, yardstick in her grasp, ready to rap the knuckles of our hands, should we...
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