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October 23, 2024

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October 23, 2024

IMAGINE THIS BLANK PAGE IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE. WRITE OR DON’T WRITE THIS BLANK PAGE IS YOURS. NO SUBMISSION, NO ENTRY FEES
WRITING IS FREE, TO YOU AND TO ME.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LOOK at my new scar

October 19, 2024

My shoulder replacement is a success. I must be careful not to overuse it, lift something heavy and I’ll lose it.  My surgeon said he would look at my right shoulder in January when he looks at the left for the final oohs and aaashhs.
 The cleaner is cleaning.  

I am waiting for:

 The results of the BC Provincial Election tonight
pain medication  by Tuesday,
a call to set up physio appointment
Counselling session next week Friday
six cortisone shots to relieve pain in my spine  Oct.30th , 2024
Shoulder surgeon appointment  in January, final clearance on left
and  start the process for the right shoulder
First x-ray on my knee for what  likely be a knee replacement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I listen to music, read, write poetry and prose, and make videocasts, usually in collaboration with visual and media artist Murray Toews. I am a writer with disabilities, or a disabled writer, or a neurodivergent crip writer. You choose the point of entry for your reading;  there are no border guards.  The welcome mat is out. Stomp your feet and leave your shoes on. 

Love & Surgery (Radiant 2019) is my most recent collection of words about love and loss, including my below-the-left- knee amputation, my most visible disability. "Lousy cartilage genetics,"  the surgeon's note. Lucky for me no phantom leg pain. Disappearing cartilage makes for severe osteoarthritis. Real pain is now an everyday companion, but usually held back enough with meds and meditation, to allow for making poems, stories, jokes, aphorisms all true enough, remembering narrators are unreliable and writers make shit up. 

Afghanistan Confessions, poems in the voice of Canadian soldiers, was published in 2014, boy in 2012. Lucky Man (2005) was nominated for the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year award.