Canada Day, 2022

A timely prompt allowed me to process how I spent my Canada Day.

Hop-on, hop-off

I think of that day every time I ride the LRT and remember those conversations when I walk through a station. I notice what would probably be only a blur if we hadn’t taken that time to be curious, if each piece was not now invested with the memory of the voices of friends.

5 minutes in a carwash thinking about love

It's National Poetry Month #NPM22 and the theme is #intimacy, which also happens to be my personal Word of the Year! This is a playful new poem a friend suggested fits the theme.

The Lamp

A simple object became the entry point for a poem about the luxury of words.

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A poem about a dishwasher, inspired by an Airbnb experience plus a prompt to write about any single object in the chalet.

Water

Two short poems inspired by a single poem by Pablo Neruda...

Marbles

This short prose piece was inspired by a prompt to write about a body part.

Steps Counter

This short prose piece started with a prompt about change and "moving on".

Here

The image of a cat's stray whisker led to this poem...

#beautiful

A weird little vignette practicing voice, scene, and dialogue...

Traces

Five random musings inspired by this quotation from Renato Rosaldo: "The material of poetry is not so much the event as the traces it leaves.”

Mother Tongue

Technically, I am unilingual, but I carry other languages with me...