I’ve declared making is the best job in the world. Manifestos have returned with a vengeance. Time I published some of mine! Here’s the shortest by way of Marie- Claire Blais who died recently. I’m remembering a quote already revised once into English from Songs for Angel. pain desires revenge, With any luck I’ll have
... read more.Quotations
The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
About my blog I will post anything and everything that pops into my head as often as I can, appropriate from my thinking. This is the most likely spot for He was the kind of guy, jokes, quotations, journal and diary entries. It is born free, as free as the wind blows (remember) which way?
... read more.Also posted in Blog, Listening, Namedfropping, Poems, Uncategorized 2 Comments
Poets’ Poker Night in Regina
... read more.
Also posted in Blog, Listening, My Daily Fog, Namedfropping, Poems, This & That Leave a comment
Innocence (i. Introduction)
The Angel that presided ‘oer my birth The Angel that presided ‘oer my birth Said, “Little creature, form’d of Joy and Mirth, “Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth.” Auguries of Innocence By William Blake To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
... read more.Also posted in Blog, Listening, Poems, Recommended Reading, This & That, Uncategorized Leave a comment
Doing, Not Being, There
Waiting I’ve submitted my new poetry manuscript Music For Men Over Fifty: Songs of Love and Surgery, being called Love and Surgery for short. Now as the song goes “Waiting is the hardest part,” I’m also waiting for a prosthesis, first measurements on Friday at Lawson Prosthetic, 610 Ellice Ave. in Winnipeg. I’m also waiting
... read more.for pain room, 1 2 10
“Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.”[1] [1] Alphonse Daudet, La doulou: (la douleur), 1887-1895 (Paris: Librairie de France, 1930) p. 16; Julian Barnes (ed. and trans.) In the Land of Pain (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) p. 19.
... read more.Also posted in Envoi, pain room blogish Leave a comment
Passages: Three Dead Men In A Drunken Boat
Robert Lowell and Hank William dance with Field Commander Cohen A bad black and white movie, this dying in the back bench seat of a yellow New York taxi cab. Robert Trail Spence Lowell without the heart for the trip home, tips his head on his hoary chest, frees his depressed nuerons to collide with
... read more.Also posted in Envoi, Poems, Recommended Reading, Uncategorized Leave a comment
Passages; Lowell on Sunday and Roethke
Waking Early Sunday Morning by Robert Lowell For Theodore Roethke by Robert Lowell “I LEAVE MY FATHER’S EYE” – Theodore Roethke I stumble into the pool, my fall checked by the cleanest water until I put my head down my feet up. Enveloped by a field of
... read more.Also posted in Envoi, Listening, Recommended Reading, Uncategorized Leave a comment
PASSAGES FROM BLAKE’S MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL
from Plate nine William Blake came up in a Bryan Sentes Facebook post, as good a reason as any to read passages from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Blake dines with Isiah and Ezekiel “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, &
... read more.Also posted in Poems, Recommended Reading, Uncategorized Leave a comment
PASSAGES
Having played Simon Stimson in our high school production of Our Town, it seemed fitting to become the choir director of the Glenlea Mennonite Church, pictured here. While this white clapboard structure wasn’t that different from most prairie churches, I always appreciated the windows you could look through, and as the sages say, they were
... read more.