ALLAN DAVID SMITH-REEVE Who will miss us when we’re gone?Will the wolves and the cougars cry?Will the whales and the dolphins mourn our passing?When the last of the humans have wasted away,Who will miss our company? Perhaps the parasites who feed on usas we feed on others?Perhaps the mosquitoes who […]
By Allan David Smith-Reeve From my bedroom windowI look up the driveway between the lilac hedgesnorth over open fieldsfrom where winter arrives most days She arrives with her weathersilent and nakedI have to look for her in treetops But today She rushes at my doorstepHowling between the gaps in my […]
Adapted by Norah and Ziysah von Bieberstein from the original song lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda We’re the strong ones, we’re not nervousWe’re as tough as the crust of the earth isWe fight for what concerns usAnd we glow ’cause we know what our worth is We know how hard all […]
JIM SLAVIN – On the cover of Laurie Graham’s long poem Fast Commute (McClelland & Stewart, ISBN 978-0-7710-5197-5), Jan Zwicky writes: “Graham has set herself a vital moral task: actually to see the fantastic violence of resourcist culture, its appalling and unremitting abuse of the land, and to name the […]
In the opening stanza of her long form poem, Fast Commute, local author Laurie Graham sets the scene of our climate changing times. The wish that the extinct reverseand the nearly gone be plucked from deathand the managed, risks, in my mouthbecoming a man with a chainsawon a plot the […]
By Phillip Keinholz Take out compost bucket. Take away, oh, take away the food trimmings, Leftovers from my plate, garden leavings, the police state, Surveillance state, pernicious hostile security state. Here, take my privilege into the moldering pile. Turn neglect of transformance to transformable compost. Performing I’ll donate the corporate-as-person, […]
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