Made in Montreal

4 October 2024 All poets need to find their voice, this requires talent, perseverance, and commitment to writing. From when I began writing ...

  2012 Morrissey: Please write a post for my blog at https://stephenmorrisseyblog.blogspot.com/ ChatGPT:  I'm unable to directly post co...

  2012               It is through human expression that we can defeat the over arching digital tyranny; through joy and poetry w...

  Deleted: Creativity has the capacity to heal; some have fallen into the darkness of existence, and writing poetry or making art is one way...

  Deletions: 3.   You don’t become a poet expecting to be liked for everything you write, or even for some of what you write. Why do people ...

Squirrels screwing I will have to copy the essay here. Meanwhile,  Thank you to Mark McCawley for publishing this minimalist essay, "Po...

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...

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...