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POPE DIES

 


No dice
No Christ
No rise

 

Always Breathe Video

Selected Readings by Victor Enns. Order Always Breathe online.

ON AND ON AND ON

CUFF WITH A BUTTON

Grabbed by the photo camera
sure as shootin’ obscura
hand pressed
spine flattened
drag my ass to lazy
bed my scabby
hammer toes
ringing anvil
sparks fly
make a copy
Pick a bale full
of buttons tug
the shirt to close
the end is nigh
press the spine
game of apocalypse
now yesterday’s
dirty laundry
forgotten
line please
For the morning
Back to bed
cat on my shoulder
my nose stuffed
with my hair of Guss

HOME AND AWAY
He was heard to say, “I can be a pest.”

We have great support from Murray Toews the urbanstickman  and from Relish Design. We let a “best final” virgin expire, that would be version, and Murray will send a crystal clear mp4 update which we will upload this weekend. Weekends are tough, people have lives and other things to do but create this perfect 10 minute video of selected readings from my lovely new book Always Breathe. I can be a pest. But send money and we will send you a book. Every which way.

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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. 

But remember

Always Breathe, (n n 2025) 186 page of raw, candid, memoir from my face to face meeting with a brick wall when I was 6 months old, to my narrow escape from a badly bungled methadone transition that nearly killed me. A quick sample.

I am dizzy I am raw

Still to sign a DNR

My hallucinations

stand around my bed

they breathe too,

until I’m dead.

Order Always Breathe online.

Love & Surgery (Radiant 2019)  was my  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.