#CanadianWriters
My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling,
This is the place you would rather not know about, this is the place that will in hab… this is the place you cannot imagi… this is the place that will finall…
You walked in front of me, pulling me back out to the green light that had once grown fangs and killed me. I was obedient, but
Living backwards means only I must suffer everything twice. Those picnics were already loss: with the dragonflies and the clear… What good did it do me to know
Confess: it’s my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to d… though Lord knows I don’t go out… I wear dresses of sensible cut
The snake hunts and sinews his way along and is not his own idea of viciousness. All he wants… a fast grab, with fur and a rapid pulse, so he can take that flutter…
Two voices took turns using my eyes: One had manners, painted in watercolours, used hushed tones when speaking
Secrecy flows through you, a different kind of blood. It’s as if you’ve eaten it like a bad candy, taken it into your mouth,
Snow packs the roadsides, sends du… onto the pavement, moves through vision like a wave or sand… The bus charges this winter, a whale or blunt gray
This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons
I would like to watch you sleeping… which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter
There is nothing to be afraid of, it is only the wind changing to the east, it is only your father the thunder your mother the rain
It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flec… blended with the paper;
The house we built gradually from the ground up when we were yo… (three rooms, the walls raw trees) burned down last year they said
She has been condemned to death by… may escape this death by becoming… woman by marrying the hangman. But… time there is no hangman; thus the… There is only a death, indefinitel…