By Lois Archer-Duell
He ate ’em. Catherine knew it was so because it was Jamie Carlyle who was telling them…
A Rookie Mower’s Plea…
By Diana Robinson
In the rain, in the dark, well before the dawn,
We have most of your golf course cut, before your coffee’s on!
The other pandemic
By Tristan Marajh
Preparedness only comes in retrospect, after hundreds of thousands have already died…
Zen and The Art Of Being Stuck In Bangkok during the Pandemic
By Vivian and Duncan Morris
I call my husband the Zen Master. Lest you get the idea he’s a former Buddhist monk…
Entwined
By M. Strangland
Closed eye
Soft breath…
Orb Life
By M. Strangland
Life
suspended…
Strawberry Fields for Never
By Dorothy Isted
Because of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) farmers are having a tough time…
If I win
By Jamie Smith
If I win
It’ll be in the windfall…
The Beautiful Machine
By Jamie Smith
Is this from my childhood?
the patch of sunlight on the living room carpet I used to play in?
On that bankrupt morning
By Jamie Smith
On that bankrupt morning I hope
We talk our way through the resolve…
Is this the cut?
By Jamie Smith
Birds glitching
In unsure light…
El Parque De Los Genoveses
By Jamie Smith
In the park
Next to the birdcage full of doves…
The Other
By Karen Lesli
You are the vinyl seat in August
I rip my flesh away…
Whisper
By Karen Lesli
She’s here, you know, she sleeps in my bed, right under here.” She pats the bed by her hip…
Riding the Covid-go-round
By Kevin Gooden
Mystery illness in China confounds doctors.
Weird.
Painting
By Barclay Alldred
The isolation we are living with is psychologically devastating for many. In an effort to negotiate…
The Secret
By Marilyn McAllister
Being retired ‘n all, I really didn’t think the virus was going to have much of an impact on my life…
Unspoken Gratitudes
By Dorothy Rolin
A time for reflection, a time for forgiveness, a time for compassion, in this unprecedented time…
To What End?
By Ineke Hughes
Life’s a bitch and then you die. Death’s a bastard when you haven’t lived. Which camp do you fall into?
A Letter to My Daughter
By Joanne Taylor
You are a rainbow brought by sunshine in a prism. You are pure joy to me and to everyone…