Summer Study
Summer Study is an acrylic on canvas painting inspired by the blooms and foliage in Ontario’s national and provincial parks.
in cemento veritas
Clothes that survived covid 19, very similar to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii.
Jellyfish and Microbeads
By pairing the natural with the unnatural, I create a subtle awareness of the plastic pollution crisis. Mixed media watercolor on paper.
Peppers for a Stew
This is a watercolor of three peppers in orange, yellow, and red being cut up to be put in a meat stew with other vegetables.
Covidscapes
These images were done during our Covid isolation.
Time
Time is inspired by the emotions of time. The now is where time does not exist.
A Spring Collection
A collection of artwork with Spring in mind.
3 Untitled Portraits of Young Men On the Verge Of Infamy
The illustrations are done with ink on paper and all measuring @ 5″X7″.
Elvis Has Left the Building
This artwork uses layers of collage and mixed media to portray memory, drawing on city life, poetry, art history, and other urban influences.
Diversity Dance
Celebrating the differences. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas.
Birdhouse in the Birches
A quiet scene from the Reiffel Bird Sanctuary on the Fraser River Estuary, near Vancouver, B.C.
In cemento veritas
Paintings and sculptures.
Garcia Lorca
Drawing of Garcia Lorca.
The Jejune
The jejune shares a handsome similitude with Mammon, in his politically-correct dysplasia, and his ability to fake.
Review of The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar
A review of Emily Schulten’s book of poetry The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar.
Thoughts on Modernist poetry
The modernist poetry movement has radically changed the rules in form, style, stanza, and rhythm.
Political challenges in a selected section of ‘Insights and Poems’ (1975) by Huey Newton and Ericka Huggins
A review of insights and poems by Huey Newton as well as extensive political commentary on the overarching significance of the man.
Helen, Life and Times – Unafraid Minutes on Hindustani Cinema and its Deployment of Helen
This book can elicit an infectious curiosity about Bollywood amongst audiences beyond the mediascape of India/South Asia.
Don’t Miss Your Connection: an Interview with Best-Selling Author Jonathan Evison
An interview with Best-Selling Novelist Jonathan Evison about his new book, Small World (2022).
An Apology for M.Phil.
A globally-acknowledged degree, of respected stature and ancient origins, does not find a place in the popular imagination.
Quirks and Quiddities
All about the dangers of soil erosion in Bangladesh, the fate of farmers, and what is being done to prevent it.
Lost in the Fog
It is about the unholy creation, existence, liberation, and legacy of the Nazi death camps as documented by “Night and Fog.”
Living is also about Learning to Die
Learning to die is the beginning of living.
An ARTistic Ride
From Stanley Park and Yaletown, to Granville Island and False Creek, I share eight of my favorites over the years.
On Poetics (and matters of similar tedium)
A look at the current literary scene as someone sees it (mainly).
Did Frodo Make it to Mordor or Not?
One Courageous Translator Kept Readers in the Soviet Union Waiting Years to Find out
Her Red Dress Matches Her Eyes
A former librarian is hired as a secret agent with her government, and all hell breaks out.
Nature Doesn’t Bend
Gender identity, politics, and the criminal justice system collide like a car crash.
The Contract Broken
Voltaire and Rousseau discuss where modern society is going wrong.
Brilliant Blue
A story of 3900 words that might remind readers of a specific story by Hemingway and one by O’Connor.
Fifteen Minutes to Cavendish
A relationship viewed through a discussion on real estate. We get so caught up in “What-Ifs,” we lose sight of what’s right in front of us.
Lenses
This was written from the perspective of lenses. It doesn’t provide a solution; it only records what it sees. The consequences are unknown.
Dreams and Secrets of the Sea
A tale of a little orphan girl stealing dreams from a green, bib-wearing Sea Serpent, in a world where fairies take children’s dreams.
The Flower Lady
Love and compassion bloom during a pandemic.
The Exiled Shore
A high functionary in a dictatorship is sent into exile, facing an uncertain, yet strangely comfortable future.
The Days After
Eddie has left prison, but the prison hasn’t left him.
The Devil Made Us Do It…
Once upon a time two lady pirates set sail in the South China Sea in search of treasures hidden by the Japanese during WWII.
Latchkey Girl
A love affair between mathematics and cinema is created by a beautiful, young heart!
Crying
The central character’s grief following the death of his wife is made more complicated by her deathbed confession of marital infidelity.
disseverance
When the inevitably right thing happens – and doesn’t.
Smile at today’s sun as it goes down
Maybe if they knew of my hardships
They would go easier on me
Promise
A real story about two people who trusted each other and kept promises but the male in the relationship screwed the female over.
About My Sister Not Understanding Poetry
Everyone doesn’t “get” poetry. It’s okay that people don’t “get it.” There are things in their own lives I don’t understand.
Poem To The Unconvinced
Poem about truth and lies and how they beg to differ.
Inferno’s Frozen Circle
This is a poem written to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante (2021).
The World is Broken
The increasing gun violence in America and the world. Teenagers with guns shooting other children.
Cut
My work is from a manuscript called “What the Sun Thought,” which I wrote several years ago.
Small Facts About A Barely Significant Love Story
He wedged a poem between the brickwork and the sill,
thought it would slow down ants.
The Retreat
The Retreat is about my time at Omega. I experienced powerful healing rituals after a difficult divorce and loss of my job.
The Infinite Chaos
People today In the hope of security Concentrate them into the small space, Limit infinite chaos, wider occupancy, and horizon.
Russia’s war invading Ukraine
Monstrous Putin, bloody Russian dictator, wading in blood
Vile creature isolated in ivory tower using murder and terror
Trees of the house
Women and trees interconnect, the nuance of support. They weep and write, create and cry. Trees create magic similarly.