Category Archives: Currently reading

EARLY IN THE MORNING While the long grain is softening in the water, gurgling over a low stove flame, before the salted Winter Vegetable is sliced for breakfast, before the birds, my mother glides an ivory comb through her hair, heavy and black as calligrapher’s ink. She sits at the foot of the bed. My […]

Last at Bat I remembered the right thing then I didn’t do it because I was hungry or lazy my selfish self sucked in the day as though I owned it as though the sun rose for me alone next door the dog lounged on the porch licked his own balls just because he could […]

My Neighbour  the cops were here yesterday took George’s five kids away I saw George in the window waving goodbye to his children  his 400-pound frame looked like rain  it’s quiet and dark there now and sometimes I can hear George weeping  by David Groulx p. 22,  A Difficult Beauty (Wolsak And Wynn, 2011)  It […]

The Execution On the night of the execution a man at the doormistook me for the coroner. “Press”, I said.  But he didn’t understand. He led me into the wrong roomwhere the sheriff greeted me: “You’re late Padre.”  “You’re wrong,” I told him. “I’m Press.” “Yes. Of course, Reverent Press.” We went down a stairway.  “Ah, […]