Author Archives: Pearl

the very next day it took leave of me waving it off merrily beside myself, fatigued at the overly long stay But the funk came back and it had kittens… The Cat Came Back Film at the NFB

sound waves collide like body languages baffled by traffic pace irregularated meeting perpendiculars no smile for awkward dances sinuses become the reed of body instrument all of the musicians practice on separate scores nausea begins a purr too polite to roar shoulders roll to knit forward towards making a conjoined grind of binary socket isolate […]

Decorum is by Stephen Dunn from his New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994. It’s on a workshop debating the right word choice for a poem/ experience on “making love”? or not. It just slays me for being painfully accurate and funny. Thanks for Jude pointing it out. Dunn‘s a writing teacher from New Jersey who won […]

— Rounding the brick edge a wind to whip loose my hair, shirt — sidewalk sailing gust Poetry of the Sea

I suppose it’s rather late to mention but the yearly poetry month program of a poem a day selected from U.S. primary and secondary schools is still all up . Look at the wisdom of a grade 4 student, Mariella: You tell me that it is too early to be looking back, but that is […]