Cathedral Grove

April 15, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Highway 4 cuts across the interior of Vancouver Island, twisting through the mountains. It’s been twenty years since I’ve passed this way and yet, when the endless rows of trees open to reveal the stillness of Cameron Lake, with mountains in her backdrop, my reaction is the same: the sheer beauty brings tears to my […]

Driving up Vancouver Island

April 13, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

One tooth is repaired, and the other, accompanied by another prescription for antibiotics, will have to be pulled when we get home. At least I can eat on the one side. The dentist thinks the muscle spasms I was having in my face caused me to clench and the pressure broke my teeth. Anyway, TMI. […]

Goodbye Victoria, Hello Nanaimo

April 12, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Rain has defined our time on Vancouver Island. I guess this is where they coined the adage: April showers bring May flowers. While some trees are already in blossom, it is easy to see that others are on the cusp. We are all just waiting for sunshine. For most of the week we have […]

Discord

Does illness have a voice,and if so; is it melancholy,or dark and dank, divulgingdeepest despair, or revealinga vileness of nature? Discord creeps along my veins,disrupts muscles, systems failingunder the oppression –“Stay strong,” friends counsel,cannot hear the gathering storm,feel the heaviness cloaking me. I am not myself, but then;who am I? Is disease a mutationof the […]

Save Us

Discharge the gun –protection a vesselthrough which our depthsare undefined…adrift Fear is a burrowerwears a false crownbirths losstrusts danger Hearts beg,amid this trigger-readinessfor a guardian – unafraidto court this meaningless Futility unchecked –to study productive optionsunimaginable in the current state of chaos on repeat. (Art my own)

I Am Willow

These bones, they saywill finish me – too brittleto withstand the race But I am Willowrecollection wispymy dance defiant Porous as a sea spongesoaking up each daymettle despite the rattle (Tuesdays I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. Image my own.)