Made in Montreal

  2012 1.   From the bottom of a garbage can in the kitchen honeybees fly out as a great black cloud, I ran to the living room and t...

I wrote these notes before a reading at the Visual Arts Center in Westmount, QC, on 17 October 2017: Poets aren't nomads, we all come ...

In addition to all of the important qualities a poet must have—talent, intelligence, and a passion, an obsession, or a compulsion to write—a...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...