ongoing

Like a muscle gripped against old pain and softened, discovering quiet after assault   like a candle snuffed out by velvet night breezes so darkness can dance in a spangled cloak   like a spring-fed lake whose only exit is evaporation ongoing   the...

Lake Weslemekoon

There was a lilypad pushed by ripples to rub up against the next, opening like a baby’s mouth to gawp against its neighbour.   I watched the green look like it was eating its brother but each soft undulation left both unharmed.   There was a rain...

Prognosis

I am spending more time with my prognosis: dying this death that seems slow but won’t at the end   instead of putting on a sweater and waiting in the office for the name of it   I am lying in the sun and letting rain touch me   the diagnosis...

Leave no trace

Leave no trace, walk so gently the earth feels your toes as a tickle and grass springs back after your touch.   Start erasing with kindness all the pencil marks sketching your contours, all the measurements planned for safe cutting.   Think of your seeds not...

more sources

I pretty much get inspired by every article in the National Geographic… and much of what I hear on CBC radio… and mostly by what passes outside my living room window. So why do I bother to post these? I feel a lot of gratitude for the people who have...