A Hunch

I’ve been hunched over a sink for hours this weekend due to electorate bad decisions. 158 balloons, each filled with colour, water, memory,  one for each Canadian soldier who died in Afghanistan, including those lost in friendly fire incidents,  actually dead boys and girls , not trade threats, but we were quiet,  and they loaded […]

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Fast Eddie

Stories about my GG Grandfather Edward Murphy They never called him Fast Eddieto my knowledge, I made that part up, but they should have,but this city knew his name, celebrated himstar in 3 sports, no wait 4, fledgling hockey leagues competing and losing the Stanley cup with men who would be come Ottawa Senator legendsAlf […]

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Bone Fragments in the Rough Fescue

A lone farmhouse stands leaning into a pervasive wind , sands blasting divets accumulating in time, deer stay skittish, with blended brown covert listening, men with claws come at me, wrecking bar legs, gnarled tooth saws for jaws, and sledges for fists. skin me, tear from me, expose me and leave me here in tatters, […]

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