Twister
The Evangelical Christianwas so busytying up his shoelacethat he failedto notice the twisterfast approaching.When he finally stood upand saw dark […]
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Canadian Poets
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Charity
The light morning slivers and glitters through crab apples frozen and sweet as clumps of pin cherries to a flock
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Juggler
I can’t stop thinking about that man alone on the spot-lit stage, juggling knives of different heft and blade length,
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Poetry and Scale
Flying changes the scale of things. From up here at 40,000 feet, the immense boreal forest of northern Canada looks
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Coda
From the garden rose the sound of bees that lurched and wobbled through the peonies. We ate eggs, French toast,
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What Need or Duty
What need or duty makes me leave our warm bed with you put on cold 4 a.m. clothes heat coffee,