Made in Montreal

Walking to Meadowbrook Golf Course, 27 March 2020 I wrote "The Great Year" in the mid- to late- 1990s. Here is the complete, edite...

1967 Opening boxes of old books saved from our flooded basement, it’s a return to the past, a return to what used to interest me. This inclu...

The Age of Aquarius (c. 2000 - 4000 A.D.) the world felt itself at the beginning of a great change                --W.B. Yeats Odyss...

The Age of Pisces (c. 100 B.C. - 2000 A.D.) Fish surrounded me when I was a child, even my mother's arms felt wet and cold; I co...

13 March 2010  The Age of Aries (c. 2400 B.C. - 100 B.C.) The moon blood red, not with harvest, but like the earth, with blood; pe...

13 March 2010 The Age of Taurus (c. 4550 - 2400 B.C.) The bull silent in an ochre coloured field, genitals hanging; the shadow in mo...

Montreal, 1852 The Age of Gemini (6480 - 4550 B.C.) When Adam and Eve left the Garden the journey began, and so we find ourselves a...

13 March 2010 The Age of Cancer (c. 8640 - 6480 B.C.) We do not live in caves, we visit them as holy places-- each seed planted is a...

Age of Leo (c. 10,800 - 8640 B.C.) A lion is born in the heart, he walks at night enters dreams, and in our throats when we wake w...

September 2016 The Age of Virgo (c. 13,000 - 10,800 B.C.) The months begin and are like winter, always longer than expected: five mon...

01 01 2017 I have always been concerned, perhaps obsessed, by time. I have been a diarist since January 1965. Some of my first poems were ab...