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.”
Traces
Mother Tongue
Technically, I am unilingual, but I carry other languages with me...
Clear Space
Looking up at trees helps me distinguish between walls and boundaries...
Totems
This poem was inspired by a photograph taken from Allan Gardens in Toronto. I've never been there, but it got me thinking about connection in an urban setting.
Charming
This was wildly fun to write! It's a response to a response poem...
Cat Person
Just a fun and possibly revealing little reflection on being a "cat person" (even though I no longer have a cat).
Perimeter
A prose-poem reflecting on being true to one's self and what that even means.
Planting Seeds
I wrote this short prose piece about teaching, but I think it can be applied to "self", too -- to trust the chances we take...
Kindness
I've been experimenting with non-poetic forms lately, including flash fiction, like this 171-word story.
Just Once More
It’s difficult to explain to a non-dancer what the loss of partner dancing is about, this thing we chase week after week, night after night, but I thought I’d try, with this prose-poem.
what happened here
This weekend, I'm writing for the Contemporary Verse 2 Two-Day Poem Contest. This is the poem I wrote for last year's contest.
Listening
I'm finding myself once again needing to tune out from news and social media, and this poem came out in the middle of all of that.
