So.

This year I'm taking the long way around.  Instead of publishing shameful excuses for legitimate book-goals in advance, I'm going to be doing the work, then reaping the benefits.  (Thought I'd put a different spin on things since my last two years have flopped miserably!)

Blah, blah...Canadian authors...all that.  You know.

Beloved by Toni ( Read more... )

this is a time to be humbled.  i cannot afford an ego today.

I had anticipated Calgary would be the highlight of this trek cross-country. In fact, I almost booked a second overnight stay. Now I am dreading dawn and the eight or so of hours left glaringly vacant for me to fill in this city before my evening departure. I want to wake up in beautiful British Columbia to parted lips and a hungry tongue sooner ( Read more... )

Confession ( Read more... )

every time i see a little red car ( Read more... )

"Vade Mecum"

I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry.
--Billy Collins

Happy Canada Day

there is a sweet, sweet bicycle laying upright against the wall in my backyard.  i would love to take it for a spin tonight, but i've spent the majority of the weekend timid and tense - i am learning about bleeding and it will be weeks before i ride again ( Read more... )

i am going to bomb this.

too spaced to do it right, too grounded to take it lightly.  and i'm sorry on top of things.  i have been too.... and not enough....  i forget the sensation of firmer ground.

balance, you say.  what's that?

feed the artists!

Danish government wants jobless artists to become teachers

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i am home from montreal with a new haircut and fresh images of lingering touch.

delicious.

"Provisions"

What should we have taken
with us? We never could decide
on that; or what to wear,
or at what time of
year we should make the journey

So here we are in thin
raincoats and rubber boots

On the disasterous ice, the wind rising

Nothing in our pockets

But a pencil stub, two oranges
Four Toronto streetcar tickets

And an elastic band holding a bundle
of ( Read more... )