Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom)
By Michael Ondaatje, b.1943, Canada. Speaking to youthis hourthese days whenI have lost the feather of poetryand the rainsof separationsurround us tocktock like Go tablets …
By Michael Ondaatje, b.1943, Canada. Speaking to youthis hourthese days whenI have lost the feather of poetryand the rainsof separationsurround us tocktock like Go tablets …
Note from web author: One of the best things about retiring my small physical poem board (on the side of our road back in August) …
by Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1874-1942, Prince Edward Island. Come, rest awhile, and let us idly strayIn glimmering valleys, cool and far away. Come from the …
By Bliss Carman, 1861-1929, New Brunswick. O all the little rivers that run to Hudson’s Bay,They call me and call me to follow them away.Missinaibi, …
By Atticus, Canadian poet.
By Skyros Bruce/Mahara Allbrett, b.1950, Sleil Waututh (Burrard Inlet, B.C.) that day i told youthat the scarson my wrist were fromwhen i was a birdthat …
By Emma LaRocque, b.1949, Métis/Canada. Sometimes I forgetso I buy soft thingssurround my hard-won worldwith syntheticspastelscushionsand Zamfir. Sometimes I forgetso I go to theatresurround my …
By A.M. Klein, 1909–1972, Ukraine/Quebec. INot an editorial-writer, bereaved with bartlett,mourns him, the shelved Lycidas.No actress squeezes a glycerine tear for him.The radio broadcast lets …
By Joan Crate, Metis/Canada, uploaded by Brick Books Feb 19, 2013.
By Leonard Cohen MaritaPlease find meI am almost 30 This is my voicebut I am only whisperingThe amazing vulgarityof your styleinvites men to thinkof torturing …