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You Teach Me
I thought I was familiar with the lost art of conversation When I had forgotten in your presence Desire speaks - another language I must unlearn As love enters in: a stranger arrogant, and unwilling ©… more →
Dean J. Baker - Poetry, prose, lyrics, prose poems
You Teach Me
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deanjbaker wrote 13 hours ago: I thought I was familiar with the lost art of conversation When I had forgotten in your presence Des … more →
Ithacas
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deanjbaker wrote 1 day ago: for any and all I will till and plough, let sift the soil; demand fresh herbs, such as coriander and … more →
This Earth
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deanjbaker wrote 2 days ago: What was I running from when everything was beside me Shaking at the thought of you, inside each mov … more →
Shifting The Ashes
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deanjbaker wrote 3 days ago: I turn on the switch, for the kitchen light: nothing stirs. Your shadow at first dark as space, fade … more →
The Stupids
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deanjbaker wrote 4 days ago: My mind’s a thread unwinding; I pluck at darkness, which falls. It won’t let the stupids out; it suf … more →
At These Crossroads
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deanjbaker wrote 5 days ago: Who knows how many letters I could write you, and Never send: the totality of truth Cannot be approa … more →
Five CanPo Titles: Patrick Lane's Go Leaving Strange
Stephen Rowe wrote 2 weeks ago: Go Leaving Strange by Patrick Lane Year: 2004 Publisher: Harbour Publishing Province: British Columb … more →
Eternal Struggle
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deanjbaker wrote 2 weeks ago: What smashes into my attention: first, your impatience to get on with it; while, I’m the instrument … more →
Drinking Hemlock
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deanjbaker wrote 2 weeks ago: I shall not grow old, into decrepit loneliness; nor the thousand plagues upon the way. I shall not b … more →
Fat Albert’s Outpatient Folk Clinic - The Initiates
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deanjbaker wrote 3 weeks ago: Boris wandered lost in the crowd, stifling yet another belch; knuckles sliding along the ground, shu … more →
Dancing
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deanjbaker wrote 3 weeks ago: Let’s lie beneath the sheets these days and nights; where I surround you impossibly, touching me at … more →
Pastures
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deanjbaker wrote 3 weeks ago: Retrieve my spirit Cleanse my soul Of what is lost To my control Take from me What I don’t know Show … more →
Meeting Irving Layton
deanjbaker wrote 4 weeks ago: 1 A brief I’d run out the front door of my home, with my father chasing me, obviously angry. It was … more →
Meeting Irving Layton
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deanjbaker wrote 4 weeks ago: 1 A brief I’d run out the front door of my home, with my father chasing me, obviously angry. It was … more →
Winter’s Tales Author Reading Series
mimrlith wrote 1 month ago: POETS OF WONDER AND BEAUTY We have a wealth of literary events this fall. The Pen & Inkling Fest … more →
LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS ANNOUNCES ITS NATIONAL COUNCIL 2009 – 2010
mimrlith wrote 4 months ago: Toronto – The League of Canadian Poets (LCP) at its Annual General Meeting and conference in Vancouv … more →
Michael Ondaatje
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Michelle wrote 6 months ago: “We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we hav … more →
Canadian Mid-Winter Gift
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thebeliever07 wrote 10 months ago: So how does one keep at bay the horrible monster that is ‘Winter Depression?’ I mean let … more →
Reading S.E. Venart’s Woodshedding
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Lorette C. Luzajic wrote 1 year ago: You aren’t expecting the poet to talk about Peaches, known for such musical subtleties as Fuck the P … more →
