Make no bones about it; my left foot carried its final edition in my genes since the day I was born. My left ankle’s collapse a birth defect; its ankle fusion fix a failure, confirmed too late by a CT scan for anyone to believe my foot’s pain was 9 on a scale of
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TRIAGE
I am in an angry and sad place right now. I’m sad that R Murray Schafer has died. He was 88 and has done a lot of good work so it’s a tempered sadness as I work on gazhals prompted by his string quartets. I am sad that Dave Barber has died. He is my
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SUSANN KLASSEN GRADUATES FROM THE MCI
EXCERPT FROM THE MEMOIRS OF SUSANN ENNS In spring preparations for Mennonite Collegiate Institute (MCI) Sängerfest and Graduation took place. I was given parts to perform in both. The big Sängerfest was held in a big tent rigged up and supported by poles. We had no sound system and had to learn how to project
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A NEW TO ME SOUP I MADE YESTERDAY
ROASTED RED PEPPER TOMATO SOUP This is a soup I have been wanting to make for years, ever since Hermano’s in Winnipeg was out of reach. Sometimes Safeway/Sobey’s had one, but but yes, time to make my own. STEPS TO TOMATO SOUP ECSTACY Halve 3 perfect bright to darkening red red bell peppers, take out
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ROUTINES by Tom Wayman
ROUTINES by Tom Wayman, read by Victor Enns, with permission
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STARTING AGAIN by Tom Wayman
By Tom Wayman, with permission read by Victor Enns Photo Credit: Jeremy Addington Canadian Poetry Online
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Body & Soul
I’m listening to Chris Potter’s version of “Body & Soul,” first given life on October 11th 1939, by Coleman Hawkins whose improvised solo comprised most of the 3:00 minute take, soon to be a hit. That’s right! The first jazz hit, still released on a 78rpm disk. Unheard of! Two music books arrived yesterday including
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New Year’s Eve 2020
“Wait Now” written and read by Victor Enns New Years Eve 2020
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FOR THE YEAR THAT WAS
Published today in Jerry Jazz Musician (Online, Portland Oregon) in response to a quick call for a piece of music and some words about how it helped get us through 2020. THERE IS TOO MUCH DEATH A new poem by Victor Enns Time does not care whether it’s Covid-19 Or covert militias that kill, funerals
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Last Night I Dreamed I Was Two-Faced
Last night I dreamed I was a reluctant lieutenant in the Russian Army in Moscow in WW2. I was a two sided personality, a toady that always seemed to comply with every order to give me latitude to steal the art works that were being “saved” from cities under siege. Nobody really knew what I
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