The Bath Something – everything Wrong all wrong I know now I didn’t then I burst in – intuitively Propelled by my Own vague memory There a too familiar Too intimate scene Mother and little sister In the bath together Annulling “perfectly innocent” Mother reclining in warm water Child standing shivering Naked confused paralysis At […]
Change The radio we got last July has started to crackle alongside every song that plays no matter the station. Sometimes I imagine that the radio can’t help but cry as it plays on for my sake, missing you as much as I do. Eden Duchesneau is a Montréal based writer who returned from Tokyo […]
Places I Have Been There are places in this world where time stands still. Clouds stop drifting, and wind no longer blows. I have walked among them. Ancient spirits dwell there. They speak to those who listen with their heart. Well-worn dreams pull me back. I see behind closed eyes. Painted walls and […]
The Book of Never My Always, Overdue My Bible spits out Republicans brandishing Bazookas and hand-grenades. I think they’re from the Book of Revelations, because of that whole Armageddon thing. But when a new bar of soap feels more like an old friend to my nose, the hand-worn pages of all my ancestors splay out […]