#Canadians #Women #XXCentury #XXICentury
‘They capped their heads with feat… their faces, wore their clothes ba… with torches through the midnight… and dragged the black man from his… to the jolting music of broken
My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling,
Two voices took turns using my eyes: One had manners, painted in watercolours, used hushed tones when speaking
1. Men’s novels are about men. Women’s novels are about men too but from a different point of view. You can have a men’s novel with no women in it except possibly the landlady or the ho...
Cruising these residential Sunday streets in dry August sunlight: what offends us is the sanities: the houses in pedantic rows, the p…
i In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fe… the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction
Gone are the days when you could walk on water. When you could walk. The days are gone. Only one day remains,
Evening comes on and the hills thi… red and yellow bleaching out of th… The chill pines grow their shadows… Below them the water stills itself… a sunset shivering in it.
The water turns a long way down over the raw stone… ice crusts around it We walk separately along the hill to the open
The house we built gradually from the ground up when we were yo… (three rooms, the walls raw trees) burned down last year they said
The world is full of women who’d tell me I should be ashamed… if they had the chance. Quit danci… Get some self-respect and a day job.
Your lungs fill & spread themselve… wings of pink blood, and your bone… empty themselves and become hollow… When you breathe in you’ll lift li… and your heart is light too & huge…
The rest of us watch from beyond t… as the woman moves with her jagged… into her pain as if into a slow ra… We see her body in motion but hear no sounds, or we hear
All those times I was bored out of my mind. Holding the log while he sawed it. Holding the string while he measured, boar… distances between things, or pound…
The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your ro… house, half-acre, square mile, isl… knowing at last how you got there,