Let us have no science without art
Several people who heard me read this on the stage at the Margaret Atwood event have written to ask for a copy of this poem. This poem...
National Magazine Awards
Flying high after opening for, you know, ATWOOD last night, tonight I went to the star studded National Magazine Awards, where I sat next...
Margaret (Atwood) and me.
Margaret Atwood was very nice. I sent her a book a while back and she brought it along so I could sign it. The stage was very big Poets...
It's not often that Atwood and I are on the same list
...so I can't resist a chance to share. Here is the CBC's "Ultimate Canadian Poetry Collection" list, where they recommend 68 different...
Pavlovsk Station
Outside of Leningrad, digging up potatoes, are scientists. It is 1941. The Germans closing in. The scientists, men and women, are from...
Untitled poem with one shoe in it
On top of the green transformer box by the bus stop someone has set an infant's shoe. Lost, one imagines, and put there so it might be...
Curie in Love
If a radioactive substance is placed in the dark in the vicinity of the closed eye or of the temple, a sensation of light fills the eye. ...
While the earth remains
While earth remains, seedtime and harvest-time, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night shall not cease. - Genesis 8:22 (God’s...
The Common Swift
Consider in its turn the common swift. There is new evidence that over the dark dunes of the Sahara, a swift will stay aloft two hundred...
Niche
There is for each piece of the world a thing that is perfect in it. November was empty until the chrysanthemums bloomed. Across them,...