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You were never a saviour Maybe an indecent deity That you can’t relish in the purity of devotion But instead must Bask in imagined envy....

How long my roots could have grown around the stones of a borrowed throne Is a blessing to never need to know. You, your stifled smile ...

And like lovers do the sun on a day undeserving of an end, Every year chases me to the end of a one way street And I only get slower. All...

You write to me in soot laden notebooks and the margins of your favourite books before you ever gave me a name. I wonder who you imagined...

I hear that you’re all better now – That the infirmity that has long tormented you has met its match The devil that rents your stomach...

My mom and I took a quick trip to Minneapolis together to go see Mt Joy play at a brewery in the downtown university neighbourhood. This...

I know not how to detach tenancy from the loving gaze – To appreciate beauty without the desire for possession To employ the difference...

Foolish enough to show all of my cards so early Gratefully to your gentle eye Bathing me in the river of your forgiveness I make every...

I am my grief’s mother Her caretaker when affliction cauterizes her rationality I lend her the side of the bed I sleep on most. I am my...

The horror of you The rot beneath your skin A glaring reminder That your piety was my donation My plasticine innocence No match for your...

The mother crow sings within my rib cage oh so quietly. I never heard her before now No one told me it was hers so much as mine That the...

I am not a scarecrow. I am made from the rib bones that drown out the noise of life beating below my overalls and sweater. I’ve never...

Sometimes I wish we could be casual acquaintances. That should I find you an aisle over in the grocery store, that I’d know we’d catch up...

On our journey home in Ontario from Alberta, Mel and I decided to head a little more western first. Neither of us had ever been to BC,...

This year after finishing my Bachelor's degree, I made the choice to leave my hometown move out to Jasper, Alberta for the summer with...

The strange acquaintance Between myself And a ceiling I’ve never had the pleasure to stare up to One day she’ll know me by name. We...

A boardwalk before dusk Same hour as the night before, Same small, french dog, Same linked fingers, unbroken The saturation of the...

One hundred poems lost in a fire. One hundred moments, thoughts, Slices of a mind unpicked; Immersed into a form more purposeful. There...

These days your voice in my head is quieter A string tied to my finger Unfastening with the passage of time I follow the stars as a point...

This morning I caught my sympathy about to dial your number My forgiveness has bite Trading comfort for softness Dressing you up to make...