Made in Montreal

  29 May 2014 While my sight that was bound in my eyes unclosed, As to long panoramas of visions.              --Walt Whitman,   "When ...

Mickle Street  One of my favourite biographies of Whitman is Walt Whitman in Mickle Street (1921) by Elizabeth Leavitt Keller de...

  The men who constructed the Victoria bridge         This is the poem of occupations; In the labor of engines and trades, and the labor of...

  A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It...

There is peaceful co-existence among most animals but when a human approaches they all run for their lives. One of my favourite poems is by ...

Last spring when I began working in the garden I wondered why birds and squirrels were afraid of me but not afraid of each other. Then I th...