Photos taken on Atwater Avenue under the Ville Marie Expressway.
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
End of February 2012
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Montreal on 28 January 2013
Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral Marie, reine de la monde |
Windsor Station, once the head office of the Canadian Pacific Railroad |
St. George's Anglican church, across the street from Windsor Station |
St. George's Anglican Church |
A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, as is typical today the statue was attacked, splattered with paint, decapitated several times, toppled from where it stood, and finally removed |
Sir John A. Macdonald |
Thursday, December 21, 2023
"Montreal Lane Vision" by Tom Konyves
Tom Konyves, at his AM Productions in Vancouver, 1992 |
Tom Konyves and Stephen Morrissey, at a poetry reading in Vancouver, 1991 |
A couple of clothespins later
another creak
the cat looks up
in heat: a sunbather looks down
in between the leafy branches
where the sparrow turns and spies its mate.
And it's these sparrows
who repeat all our thoughts
in their infernal dialogues
their gossip not meant for us
watching rainbuckets mirror
the stately Versailles.
Published in Bite, volume 1, number 4;
Vancouver, 1988.
Friday, December 8, 2023
"Wedged" by Joan Thornton
Hand/Grenade by Joan Thornton |
6 am
damp
in darkness
North Sea
slapping
on the rump
of
Europe
In
Montreal
not
so far
we cannot
feel
that strain
as
Real
riot-
ous im-
mediate
as
the States
whose sharp Spring
tremor
like
a
subterran-
ean
shiver
-- shifts
our centres
of
atten-
tion
NOW -far
out along
dark
borders
where
for miles
un-
easy
migrants
perch
the ragged
edges
of
a storm
Thornton, Joan. Hand Grenade. Ottawa, The Golden Dog Press, 1973
Thursday, October 5, 2023
"Poem of the Daily Work of The Workmen and Workwomen of These States" by Walt Whitman
The men who constructed the Victoria bridge |
This is the poem of occupations;
In the labor of engines and trades, and the labor of fields, I find eternal meanings. Workmen and Workwomen! Offspring of ignorant and poor, boys apprenticed to trades, working on farms, Sailor-men, merchant-men, immigrants, House-building, blacksmithing, glass-blowing, Ship-joining, dock-building, fish-curing, ferrying, The pump, the pile-driver, the great derrick, the brick-kiln, Coal-mines, the lamps in the darkness, echoes songs, Iron-works, the great mills and factories; The slaughter-house of the butcher, the killing-hammer, The hoghook, scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, The men and work of men, on railroads, fish-boats, canals; The daily routine of shop, yard, store, or factory; In them the heft of the heaviest, In them far more than you estimated, In things best known to you, finding the best, Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place; You workwomen and workmen of these States
having your own divine and strong life.
Monday, May 29, 2023
Mordecai Richler at Mount Royal Cemetery
Friday, May 12, 2023
Spring visit to Mount Royal Cemetery
You can draw a thick black line across history: there is before Covid and after Covid; and "after Covid" is worse than Covid. I really doubt any political party can reverse our decline, or wants to reverse it; the choice is between which party will accelerate the decline and which party will slow the decline. Of course, some places were on the decline before Covid and their decline was made more obvious by Covid.
So, draw your line in the sand, draw it on paper with a thick black Sharpie, and say farewell to the past.
Photos taken at Mount Royal Cemetery or 08 May 2023.
Above: the Molson mausoleum |