Made in Montreal

Heading for Samhain, the season of the soul; the unconscious opens to the conscious mind, in dreams, something caught fleeting in peripheral...

Rowan trees in Vancouver You don't see many rowan trees in Montreal but they are common in Vancouver. The abu...

Dr. William P. Morrissey, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NYC Greenpoint “Are we in Greenpoint?” I asked, looking at maps of Brooklyn. Once I look...

4) Bleak House This will always be Bleak House to me, Dickensian in its silence and shame. A place where I retreated to a second floor...

3) Oxford Avenue I arrive at Oxford Avenue where I grew up; at the front door a man’s corpse sits in an upright position, as though h...

2) Visiting Great Aunt Edna I return to Girouard Avenue to visit Great Aunt Edna, the only one of three elderly sisters still alive and...

The Cedars, 1983 The Journey Home 1) On my Fifty-Second Birthday I have returned, on foot, to the Cedars, the country house where I li...

17. I am in a flat with an old friend, who looks the same as she did years ago. There is a young man with long hair, his name is “Morri...

15. Returning home, the car’s gear shift comes off in my hand and trying to repair it, I crawl into the car’s body and discover the car ...

Miami, Florida, 1930s 13. I am told my father has just died. He was alive all the years I thought he was dead. For fifty years I grieve...

Church in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, QC, July 2009 11. "Down Under," as they call it, a woman has been dragged to the floor, her c...

9. Former Prime Minister Chretien tells me he’ll do what he can for us to hang onto the building, but there are other people who want i...

7. I am walking along a street of ice and snow. I stop and pay for a newspaper with tokens from the casino. Then I am in a dentist’s off...

5. I am a student again. I sit in the back of the classroom with some women around me. When I leave I put on my coat and think I could offer...

Church in Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC, 2009 3. At the bottom of a garbage can in the kitchen, the honeybees I left there fly out as a great ...

1. Grandmother’s home has wood paneled walls and a claw foot bathtub beside the stove in the kitchen. I weep regretting I hadn’t returned so...

Visits from Psyche 1. I dreamed of a girl driving her old blue Volkswagen through a deep pool, water spraying up on both sides of the Beetle...

Here is William Blake's home when he lived in Felpham, near Bognor Regis, on the coast south of London. I often walked passed here while...