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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

This section introduces my new book Always Breathe. Armin Wiebe describes it best “This blisteringly candid memoir is structured in alphabetical units consisting of poems, prose pieces, social media-like posts, and one-liners that take the reader into the horror of a deteriorating body and constant pain.” Armin was a high-school student of my parents ,

NEW NEW NEW I’ver been hiding my apple under a barrel, or my talent in the mud, but I have published a new book At 70 (birthday today) copies for sale at the Mosaic bookstore in Kelowna, Massy has just sent word they’ll carry it in Vancouver, I think it’ll Bolen And Russel in Victoria.

MEDICINE I reach into My angel’s apron Their blister pac of medicine close enough now To the hour. So small and so dense It’s just enough. We call it Self-defense.  

Bullwinkle 2, Stumpy, Smile awhile? Any names you like? Aimee menard, one of our caregivers helped me on with what I sometimes call my “shrimp sock” for shrink sock, designed to  keep the end of my stump ship-shape. From shrimp she went to moose, she could see him just trying to find his way. Lightening

I stomp around in my seven League books stomp fast as I can to stomp out corruption, famine, war There is a picture, now many pictures of swims in oceans Free of blood or dead migrants park like views from houses Put to order free of slaves or soldiers this is peace alright Fright, right

POOR SPECIMEN Needles stick my dried carcass to the display board eyes woggle until skin and bones have their assignments. my pores hot and grimy under the magnifying glass. two failing specimens one side up, the other ass down Now this is failing but keep bailing. Read. Read. < V >  SOFT SOAP Longer is

TALES FROM GIMLI’S WATERFRONT CENTRE back to 2018  REVISED  March, 17, 2025 what I’m trying to say is there are moments my brain seizes up completely, not willing to leap anymore synaptic gaps, these moments often accompanied by a blank stare and a complete inability to choose anything, like, always backing up. These socks. Why

ALWAYS BREATHE Launch APRIL 9 2025 We are booking the Kelowna Art Gallery for the launch of Always Breathe Wednesday evening,  April 9th from 6 to 8 pm, with show and tell at 7pm, showing my new book with poems, stories, and artwork by Murray Toews, my collaborator in Winnipeg for two decades plus. We will