Saturday, December 3, 2016, 02:58 PM - Poetry and Writing
Proud to be part of this chorus of voices speaking out on the American election. Click on the link below to read the poems. 
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Friday, December 2, 2016, 02:39 AM - Poetry and Writing
like those before him, less blood
or a different kind, different
ceremony but similar use of timing
and Other as when Europe swelled
from pogroms and picket lines.
I don’t mean to equate brutalities
but history is bound by desire
spit and gut.
You can slay an order
when we're grinding our teeth.
The right mix of wind and kindle
a clear enough path
to unleash the legs of flame.
They knew, they know
fear is bloody heady-
we don’t care for details.
We’re tired and
when you’re tired
the smell of body
on altar delivers.
Hot front, full speed
seemed to come from nowhere.
Sunday, November 27, 2016, 01:20 AM - Poetry and Writing
It's hard to hold mist.
Rather, burn off like fog. Sit,
Grin. Let the sky cleave.
Written during the Wisdom of EveryDay Life sessions at the Shambhala Centre, Halifax with Bob and Linda.
Thursday, May 12, 2016, 07:22 PM - Poetry and Writing
For some reason, I've been giving this a lot of thought lately.
I like Adrienne Rich's answer to a similar question, "Can poetry affect social change?":
"Yes, where poetry is liberative language, connecting the fragments within us, connecting us to others like and unlike ourselves, replenishing our desire. . . . In poetry words can say more than they mean and mean more than they say. In a time of frontal assaults both on language and on human solidarity, poetry can remind us of all we are in danger of losing—disturb us, embolden us out of resignation."
Also Seamus Heaney crediting poetry with offering:
"a less binary and altogether less binding vocabulary"
The arresting and nuanced challenge positivist normative ways of thinking and moving in the world. Food for and voice of our authentic selves. What is more political than being completely in our skins?
Jean Baker Miller:
"Authenticity and subjugation are incompatible."
Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 02:40 PM - Poetry and Writing
Nox, Anne Carson
One Crow Sorrow, Lisa Martin
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
A Grief Observed, CS Lewis
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
A Very Easy Death, by Simone de Beauvoir
H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
Goshawk, by TH Whyte
The Long Goodbye, Meahan O'Rourke
Freud, Beyond the Pleasure principle
Adam Philips, Darwin's Worms
Schopenhaur, The World as Will and Representation
Walter A. Davis, Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative
When Pain is the Doorway, Pema Chodron
Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
Bough Down, Karen Green
The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
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