The Tragedy of Wanderlust
(Put your shoes on. Where are you going, and why are you going there? There is will when it comes to the coming and going. A voluntary compulsion. Perhaps this autotomy is mandatory, for if we do not choose our...
Sacred Carnality: Her
(A sunset will never look as good in a photograph as it does in real life. And yet, a sunset will never stop being photographed by people — until it stops setting. That’s how I go about writing her.) September, 2015 When...
Love Letter to Bow Trail Assessment Centre
“When there’s nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.” — Stars, “Your Ex-Lover is Dead” “This is the last place I’d want to get a needle stuck in my arm.” My little brother Byron grinned at me, getting...
Four Seasons
i. GREEN SPRING The spring is humble in the prairies — she does not boast, nor does she shine. Instead offering a gentle, cold wind. Air for the metallic, uneasy blossoms to grow within. Every so often from the garden ground will sprout — the...