

FirenightFire is carbon heated to luminescence so says the doctor-father.Firenight
Meaningful to him and to the man remembering but for the boy, toasted orange in that light, words cant yet put out fire.
Still small enough that flickering flames interest more than breasts or other hot things, he watches the Consumption logs taken bodily their essential greyness gusting moonward (are those smokestains?)
Hes still not sure if its a met


Five's a CrowdA Saskatoon year is not symmetrical: it has five seasonsFive's a Crowd
familiar four stumbling into one another awkward gropes toasting timeless acquaintance
the interloper
is grey and tan a folded old woman a stalk of straw in her gravel teeth. Limping, smiling and wet from between Winters supermodel thighs she stains white legs damp cigarette butts and chokecherries knotted in her grove of hair.
We welcome her
snow-bli


Beginning and EndBeginning and EndBeginning and End
Dew makes me wet call me St. Teresa of the Turf. When I am around to meet the Sun, I Jesus myself on the lawn arms stretched on a sunbeam back wet from 39 strokes of grass 40 is a death sentence my death of cold I suck a bitter sip not being a cow, grass lacks appeal
I am a masochistic martyr no nails needed (they risk tetanus) No, I cling to my beam its impossible angle-- &n


Walking the KettleMy mother is a boiler roil boil boil whole evenings of itWalking the Kettle
I call it walking the kettle nightly exercise while she forgets cup after cup to the creak of an arthritic mixer to the dryer-hump of our laundry room.
Alzheimers the obvious joke isnt funny to a senior. Instead I pass messages from the insulted environment
Mom, working at the sink, throws compost.
Her ch
Love your gallery!
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Molten Globs of Squirrel
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Molten Globs of Squirrel
Not that this will mean much, too you.
But, you know.
An all-encompassing thumbs-up.
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Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Ecw321, my best friend, made my wonderful icon.
LOL! Okay I just need to make/find one
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