winter sip

& so the bitter cold comes back
& february sets in / winter

it's always kind / when winter
gives lull / lets rain fall

a chance for the earth to breathe
again / let the birds find some food

give thirsty trees a winter sip








how dull these words have become




the gray greens of winter / dark
needle of the cedar / mixes browns

with / / the dirt / snow fights to stay
white / & soon it shall / it will be white






be gone this sick ness of winter /
take your fever & sweat / your
snot & your coughs / / / take this
ill ness & run toward summer







there is nothing remarkable
about cleaning house / uncountable
loads of laundry / /






you / see / in this memory
this flame kept red with fire

step out of my ears / stop singing
ringing / buzz /





red hearts / i see / kitsch jesus cards
toothpaste / ward street / coffee shop




a mirror / what i'm missing is / reflection


high pitched whistle / clink of bottles

the tv set to cbc news /


i looked on a map today / trying some how to close
in the distance between here & there / there's a whole
world between those 2 point / these 2 points


close the book / turn the / why can't this be over
why is there this hope / of meeting / of seeing
will i ever see you again?


dare i say soul mate / dare i say /
crazy / dare i?


mind isn't the same any more / a sadness
like no other / coats the landscape / pervasive
darkness of winter / a shallow trip

when you hit the water / / you will probably
break your ankles / you ribs will snap & dig
in to your guts /

very few live to tell about the the the

4 (second) fall /

a lot of bodies they just never find
some wash up / 30 miles away / eyes eaten by
the crabs ///


the ocean will swallow you






death by drown ing / /





death by pulverized body




plane crash / building falls / impact @ death
a billion tonnes / /

death by wave / / pulverized / crashes in to
the shore / over the shore / lifts / sweeps
pulls / battered / drowned / & battered
like so much sea food / / those bodies
no less / no more / than broken wood
debris strewn along thousands of kilometres of
ocean front property / ah the beach just isn't
what is was / /


death by bullet / bomb / burning
schrapnel with your dinner / in your eye
off with his head / / brains leak out his ear
a head with a face / a lovely head of hair

who cares about death / if you can't live with
dignity / one can only hope the spirit rises &
the finished body isn't all which is left for the
living / /



no no / my life is not hard / it is
western precious / white / first world