https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UABFJ-jrrxM "It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life.""...heart wrenchingly beautiful..." "...luminous! Beautiful, riveting reading..." "...original, professional, touching..." "...so damn good. You opened my heart...""...absolutely heart moving!" This video was filmed on location at Suede Productions Inc. in Windsor, ON. Featuring poet Vanessa Shields, Amanda Guitard on trumpet… Continue reading Thimbles Poetry Performance Video
Poem 261 – Didn’t All Day
Didn’t all day didn’t open the laptop all daychose the garage & the shedlifted bins & swept steps peeled & mashed potatoesdrowned everything in gravy saw the harvest moon so large & luscious in the skyit frightened me took my breath away & tucked it in a passing wind now I reach for it let… Continue reading Poem 261 – Didn’t All Day
Poem 260 – The Colour Green
The Colour Green ( for Jett) a witch’s face – smilingvomit violently releasing infectionalgae attached to plastic lining co-dependent her pupils in the morning Peas. All. The. Peas. Rolled on tonguespopped between enamel mantis praying on the railing reeling at cicada jogging pants with puffed out knee graves – stained the sky in nap dreams
Poem 259 – Fall Night
Fall Night for Monti the scent of orangedeep like changeburnt & crispylike summer’s skinpeeling to coolits tender bones the darkness darkerlayered like secretseigengrau & onyxlike shadow’s shadowripening to burstits widening playground these fall nights turn like pages in season’s grimoire –leaf’s veins weeping the last of warmth’s wishesstaining sidewalks in goodbye graffiti
Poem 258 – Inside Patchouli
Inside patchouli Autumn mornings in concert with cricketscicadas witnessing the sun’s forehead nuzzle dawn into day the accepted repetition of arriving the achievement of such repetition the musk of knowing & choosing the light – the illumination of being a thing fully this oil of my youthlingers on sweater sleeveslifts me like his kiss can
