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The consequence of reading poetry at 5 am
Sick with a head cold, and possibly more. And it kept me up last night. So I read from Billy Collins' collection "Water Water". And this poem came about. The house is silentSave for the aquarium’s flowAnd the strange, subtle noiseThe fridge is famous for And the occasional buzz of the phoneAs it vibrates out…
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Hummingbird
I rather like this memory, written while watching a Hermit hummingbird in Panama on a live cam. Jungles are dark, mostly anyway The sunshine eaten by canopiesFar above the floor ruled by antsDark until a falling tree rips free the light I’ve sat in a tree fall, Before saplings could finish their raceAnd close…
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Living forever
A little poem from last night, that might resonate. My daughter holds her niece,My granddaughter,Against her chestAs they watch tv. Blue’s Clues. She likes that show,My granddaughter They’re quiet, still,And I want to live foreverTo watch them growInto their namesInto their grey hair Into flowered dresses Into forever My fear isn’t that l will…
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Whose siding are you on?
With the roof in place it was time to get the cabin closed in. And the first step in doing that was getting siding on. We used panels for siding, and they install onto the strapping that covers the Tyvek. As mentioned in a previous post this creates channel behind the siding, so that any…
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Thirteen ways
A poet I follow, mostly on his channel (stack?) Poetry Unbound on Substack, is Pádraig Ó Tuama. In his latest post he speaks about Wallace Stevens' excellent poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, and the entire genre of poetry it inspired. If you are unfamiliar with the poem you really should search it…
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Eulogy
It has been over five years since my dad passed away. He has always been the man I most wish I was. And, as is often the case when we lose people, I think of the history that is lost when they go, like a library disappearing. I still find myself to this day thinking…
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Jungle memories
It's been a long time since I travelled. Really travelled. Flights out of here are expensive, and Leah has a strong fear of flying. But this story harkens back to a trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon. Most people think of the jungle as impenetrable. A tangle of growth, vines, thick with green.That’s only the edges,…
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That Iceberg is blocking my view
At the end of August that year, I arrived at the cabin one afternoon to discover that a large iceberg was grounded offshore in front of it. Distances and such can be hard to judge here, things seem a lot closer than they are. But to give you an idea this iceberg was 80 feet…
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Apologies
Yesterday the Federal Government apologized in Arctic Bay, to people relocated from Kinngait, Pangnirtung, and Mitamitalik to Dundas Harbour on Devon Island. Devon Island is the largest uninhabited island in the world, and to promote sovereignty the Canadian Government created an RCMP post there from 1926 to 1931 and 1945 to 1951. In between the…
