#CanadianWriters
More and more frequently the edges of me dissolve and I become a wish to assimilate the world, in… you, if possible through the skin like a cool plant’s tricks with ox…
When you hear me singing you get the rifle down and the flashlight, aiming for my… but you always miss and when you set out the poison
He is here, come down to look for… It is the song that calls you back… a song of joy and suffering equally: a promise: that things will be different up t…
Two voices took turns using my eyes: One had manners, painted in watercolours, used hushed tones when speaking
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…
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
Gone are the days when you could walk on water. When you could walk. The days are gone. Only one day remains,
It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flec… blended with the paper;
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,
My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling,
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…
You’re sad because you’re sad. It’s psychic. It’s the age. It’s… Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeles… you need to sleep.
The rest of us watch from beyond t… as the woman moves with her jagged… into her pain as if into a slow ra… We see her body in motion but hear no sounds, or we hear
i In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fe… the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction
The body dies little by little the body buries itself joins itself to the loosened mind, to the black…