Be a Lantern – a villanelle Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. (Rumi) When the way is deeply dark, and the world indifferent to your plight, I’ll be a lantern, be an ark. Steady handed, I will rock you gently […]
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Four years ago Ian Brown profiled Justin Trudeau in the Globe and Mail, and as a preamble quoted Henry Adams’ definition of politics. Adams wrote, “politics as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds”. I don’t consider myself a political writer but immediately thought that Adams’ words made an
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Song of Kraft Dinner by Anne-Marie Burrus for Vicky on the occasion of her 50th birthday, October 2009 You’re not as old as you might think. Kraft Dinner’s older by a score. Mother would have had her share with ration cards throughout the war. (That might go some way to explain eating dinner on the