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Stuart Ross read at the most recent Dusty Owl from his newest book of poetry I Cut My Finger. His leaflet The Boys is on the table.

Other people may have known this but I hadn’t twigged in. Bytown Bookshop has a lovely blog, regular, short, topical posts. Interesting sidebar links too to presses and printing things. They also have a searchable in stock inventory online, unlike the 3 books stores I’m likely to frequent. As exciting as it is to order […]

There are phrases which pivot the way you perceive from defaults, however those defaults got there. For example, whenever there was an ambulance siren my mom’s face took an anxious gaze, fretting aloud, “someone’s hurt“. It took 20 years until the incidental of being present when someone else responded to the siren and said, just […]

Is it poetry or flash fiction. Not sure of the genre but like the cumulative effect. Did Numbered Days ever look so lovely? The prompt sent me to silent ovation.

Belonging is the prompt…so many ways to think of measures of membership, ownership, connection, belonging… aunts and uncles lean on the railing – the family wide butt ** in team colors 10% of the crowd overwhelms rest ** same joint ache for 3 generations – same farm crows ** arm tighter along lover’s waist – […]