I forget to pause in the moments between things. To see the world as it is rather than as the thing I have come from or am going to....

I have taken for granted the able functions of my body. Now that I hurt a lot of the time, I am envious of the times when I did not hurt,...

wherein like irony someone grows The last sheet of tin roofing slides into place like a word I've never learned. The soft patter of fall...

I never understood the Hatfields and McCoys. Generations of family members killing one another over a long lost honor or pride. I...

Take your fine-toothed comb and slowly begin to cut through the stack of paper labeled “dissertation” on the desktop. Like an old-time...

Gathered at a community fundraising gala, a local first nation’s Elder shares her story of surviving Residential school. It is not my...

I search the faces from the passenger seat for your angularity and uneven distribution of freckles. I know I won’t be able to make out...

Vipassana exhale cinder inhale the morning dew Wake up scared. Crying but without tears. For just a moment, the images on the news last...

Coffee shop crowd Vapours rise from cliche-clad mug hidden despair The Peer-Reviewer sits with his laptop open, name blinded by the...

The road stretches ahead. Running North, home, to South, another home. The distance of friendship. The embrace of my wife acts as a...