montreal

San Francisco

Ontario

fall colours

take your shoes off

threat level orange


as one locked up

for his jokes


then ouest over

the sierra nevadas


brown and sparse

with first snow


if your fingers are blue

why are zero degrees plural?


fountain sculpture

the border freezes


stuck like mud

to the ring-necked duck’s feet


mistletoe or maple

seeds have wings


tables of blue grapes pomettes

poems grow in any climate

barite

a Sunday morning still

If you get inspired…

make the bed

poems roll out

like a sea

of altostratus

some

where

south

of hokitika

a glacier

migrates

an inch at least

there are photos

to prove what

can’t be seen

these looking

remarkably

like time

when you get

to the end

of anything -

you stop

and think

that things

stay truly still at all

can only be

an illusion

THISISNOTART

For anyone unfamiliar with it, the TINA festival, held in Newcastle each October long weekend, is well worth a visit. Last year's festival was great; it featured readings and presentations by a number of poets I was interested in. So it was great to hear them read and meet them and talk about writing for a few days. This year's program looks just as lively, the link to which is here.