An interesting fact from Mark MacKinnon in the Globe and Mail: in three months and two weeks the present war in Ukraine, started by Vlad four years ago, will have gone on as long as the first world war, the ‘war to end all wars’. Who wins? No-one.

I first posted this poem in October 2022. Sadly, it is still relevant.

Here is a sample of my new book, published today! It is available from the publisher, http://www.aospublishing.com, from me, from your local independent bookseller, and as a Kindle. Thanks to all for your support on the journey!

Prairie 3: Penned questions what sovereignty over those imaginary property lines really means

Prairie 2: Driven comprises a short excerpt from As If Through a Window, a cattle drive in textile collage, and a hint at the possible future of cattle ranching in verse.

Taking the words off the page and embedding them in an assemblage extends my book in space and in time. From As If Through a Window, this is Prairie 1: Unsettled. The reading follows.