Category: Poems

  • Poem: Calling in…

    For a change of pace: Bad beat poetry about universities. Calling in… Apathetic. I’m too tired. And my chest hurts anyway. And somehow I just don’t care. About your priorities, And all your pet projects, And the fact that you guys just can’t Get it together. So you’ll buy a $60,000 multimedia Whiz-bang high def…

  • Poem: Fenris Unbound

    Fenris Unbound It all begins with an innocent act. Original sin of the kingdom:                                               Eat. Read red nature,            Tooth and claw. Life flows across our lips, cruel wisdom. And we know, dread-full This too shall pass. Hope glimmers at the edge of his hearing And he comes to us in dreams,    Whispering…    (All…

  • Poem: Why

    Why? Because I never want to have to admit That iPlayed while the Earth burned.

  • Poem: Headline

    Headline (c. 2002) Through the slick-slack wipers, I see the transport ahead of me Fishtail. But what passes before my eyes Is not my life, but my Headline. And what does it say, this epitaph By which I will be known To the City of Toronto (if only for a day)? Scientist? Writer? Singer, lover…

  • Poem : Forest Meditation

    Partial perception, Mine, Hears a snake approach in a rustle of leaves and ! Startles The birch behind me Snakeless (like the rope) Laughing.