Deep in long retreat, on my favourite bench under the sheltering boughs of an oak, an inch-worm drops onto my arm. Such life seems miraculous: green thread of a body, delicate but dexterous, knowing red head negotiating through a forest of hairs. After appropriate, humblest reflection upon his beauty, upon our equality in sentience, I move […]
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The eye is led wide, along the utility line that runs beside the winding driveway, off towards the tiny white faces of the Rocky Mountains in the distance. It is immaculately frigid, the long landscape swaddled in dry, thigh deep powder, the low midday sun bleaching the snow blinding. In the open, swirls of stinging […]
Ivan was right. The rain has not lasted. But here along the southern edge of Lake Wabamun, the suffocating sky remains low above us. As though it truly is falling. As though this is the way that the life of centuries was pressed into the coal which runs in rich veins through this land. Among […]
THE REVOLOCUTIONARY PATHETIC MOVEMENT 