writing
Last updated: July 22, 2007

Some of my work has appeared in the following publications:

 

“Why I Am Converting To Judaism” [online article] Jews For Judaism (2006) 29 Jan 2007

“Transpositions:  Three Poems” [online poems, article] The Alberta Teachers Association – Publications (2006) 29 Jan 2007

"Railway Ties" [poem] Descant 117 (Summer, 2002): 44-45.

“105 Street” [poem] [previous title: “Juxtapositioned”] The Armchair Aesthete (U.S.A.) 14 (Summer/Fall 2000): 58.

“Brevity” [poem] The Armchair Aesthete (U.S.A.) 12 (Winter, 2000): 47.

“In The Country (Without Screen Windows)” [poem] Prairie Fire 17.4 (Winter, 1997): 86-87.

“The World Beyond” [poem] Prairie Fire 17.4 (Winter, 1997): 84-85

“Edmonton: Legislature Underpass” [poem] blue buffalo 14.2 (Fall, 1996)

“In The Beginnings” [poem] Fiddlehead 188 (Summer, 1996): 88-89

“Pieces” [poem] blue buffalo 13.1 (Spring, 1995): 9

“Token Sex Poem” [poem] Dandelion 22.1 (1995): 75

“In Flux” [poem] Whetstone (Fall, 1994): 91

“Saturday Afternoon Lovers” [poem] Whetstone (Fall, 1994): 92

“The Rock” [poem] Poetry WLU 14 (Spring, 1993)

“The Breaking (Grandpa’s Funeral)” [poem] Hudson Valley Echoes (U.S.A.) 28 (Spring, 1993): 22

“Iconography Of The Fence” [poem] Secrets From The Orange Couch 6.1 (May, 1993): 30

“Crossing” [poem] Secrets From The Orange Couch 6.1 (May, 1993): 31

“Dinner Parties” [poem] Secrets From The Orange Couch 5.1 (May, 1992): 24

“That Night” [poem] Other Voices 4.2 (Fall, 1991): 17

“The Breaking (Grandpa’s Funeral)” [poem] Secrets From The Orange Couch 3.3 (Dec., 1990): 40

“She Shows A Shell To A Prairie Boy” [poem] Secrets From The Orange Couch 3.3 (Dec., 1990): 39

“Boarding The Bus” [poem] The Western Producer 7 Sept., 1989: 7

“Cruelty” [poem] Everybody Needs A Blanket And...¾An Anthology Of Student Poetry. Ed. William Hay. Canadian Council of Teachers of English/Pandora Charitable Trust, 1989. 46.

“Silence Again” [poem] The Alberta Poetry Yearbook. Ed. Jane Livingston. Edmonton: Canadian Authors Association (Edmonton Branch), 1989. 49.

“The Meaning Of ‘y’” [poem] The Alberta Poetry Yearbook. Ed. R. John Hayes. Edmonton: Canadian Authors Association (Edmonton Branch), 1987. 55.

“3 cm3 Of Ideas” [poem] The Alberta Poetry Yearbook. Ed. R. John Hayes. Edmonton: Canadian Authors Association (Edmonton Branch), 1987. 18.

“Not A Sentence” [poem] The Alberta Poetry Yearbook. Ed. R. John Hayes. Edmonton: Canadian Authors Association (Edmonton Branch), 1986. 21.

“Lithology” [poem] The Alberta Poetry Yearbook. Ed. R. John Hayes. Edmonton: Canadian Authors Association (Edmonton Branch), 1986. 62.

“Mathematics Penitentiary” [poem] The Alberta Poetry Yearbook. Ed. Cora Taylor. Edmonton: Canadian Authors Association (Edmonton Branch), 1985. 65.

“My Badminton Racket Is Dead” [poem] The Alberta Poetry Yearbook. Ed. Cora Taylor. Edmonton: Canadian Authors Association (Edmonton Branch), 1984. 70.

 

Here's a recent piece.

In This Room


in this living
room i've stolen kisses
from the drunken lips
of a girl i never met again
& another i never let leave.
i've been high & touched the edge
of a heaven undeserved 
& settled on a well-earned hell
where i made midnight calls to friends’
machines & nursed emptiness from wine.

in this room this jewish girl learned to pray
in the language of feng shui & brushstrokes.
seven layers of red paint later
the pure & white walls of a past
that wasn't mine were semi-glossed over.
weeks worth of working meditation
& i discovered a connection
to my inner healing
buddha, uncovered in the covering
of surfaces an endless present
eternally gifting itself.

& in this room, in the presence
of friends, lovers
(best, becoming, untested, true)
i’ve finally found the room
for sacred space, the divine truth
we share this lifelong search
to touch another living soul
as tangibly as the clothes we wear
to hide from what we crave, the knowledge
that we’re momentary beings
filled by a deep desire to feel
everything we can
before there’s nothing there at all.