#CanadianWriters
This is the plum season, the night… blue and distended, the moon hazed, this is the season of peach… with their lush lobed bulbs that glow in the dusk, apples
Love is not a profession genteel or otherwise sex is not dentistry the slick filling of aches and cav… you are not my doctor
He would like not to kill. He wou… what he imagines other men have, instead of this red compulsion. Wh… fail him and die badly? He would l… finger by finger and with great te…
In restaurants we argue over which of us will pay for your… though the real question is whether or not I will make you imm… At the moment only I
An affair with Raymond Chandler, what a joy! Not because of the mangled bodies and the marinated cops and hints of eccentric sex, but because of his interest in furniture. He kn...
He was the sort of man who wouldn’t hurt a fly. Many flies are now alive while he is not. He was not my patron.
The bronze clock brought with such care over the sea, which ticked like the fat slow hea… of a cedar, of a grandmother, melted and its hundred years
In that country the animals have the faces of people: the ceremonial cats possessing the streets the fox run
Whether is it possible to become l… Whether one tree looks like anothe… Whether there is water all around the edges or not. Whether there are edges or whether
The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your ro… house, half-acre, square mile, isl… knowing at last how you got there,
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 lair of the landlady She is a raw voice loose in the rooms beneath me. the continuous henyard
Two voices took turns using my eyes: One had manners, painted in watercolours, used hushed tones when speaking
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…
Marriage is not a house or even a tent it is before that, and colder: The edge of the forest, the edge of the desert