Shapeshifter's words Profile

I feel like this vine much of the time. All bound up in a barrier
that dictates where and in what shape I will live. All bound up in
tendrils of my own personality, choking off all other life.
Inaccessible, resistant to control. From some angles, pretty; from
others, an eyesore and a nuisance.... Read More

"...make them remember me as more than a queer experiment, more than a
diagram in their quarterly."

I love you all so much
That you must hate me for it.
When I saw you and your sister
Picking at the pavement finding nothing,
I thought, I love you all so much
I can never tell you.
When I saw you tripping
Staring into a storefront seeing nothing,
I thought, I love you all so much
You... Read More

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Part of a slideshow by Rooftops Canada, the Co-op Housing Federation's international development project.

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I was coming home with some groceries (cat food) on the Main St. bus. At the bingo hall some older ladies got on, chatting about their luck, their health & all the stuff older ladies chat about.
The bus stopped at a busy corner. Suddenly the ladies interrupted their conversation to... Read More

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1. My cough and cold affliction
2. The weather
3. The attentions of Mr. Chatty
4. The hog-farming, potato-eating babushka look I get when sick
5. The fact that there will be no rest for me for another 24 hours after I get home from Whistler

I had plans to go up to Whistler yesterday for the day ... my cold was really bad & I almost cancelled, but then I figured walking around Whislter and maybe checking out some ski n snowboard events would be better than lying around home sniffling. So I dressed warmly... Read More

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So I get on this bus and head to the back, and this punk with a scowl on his face is taking up a lotta space with his mad-at-the-world sprawl. I'm sure he would have totally ignored me, except that as I was squeezing my way past his knee, clinging... Read More

Spelled write I'm glad to see;
there are rules about the I and the E.
Wieners, as in wieners from Wien;
the other way round would be Wein,
but we know wieners go better with beer.
Lost weekend barbeque explosion
has tortured my ears to the point
that I hear big engines idling on the left,
and on... Read More

I had this dream
where I relished
the fray and the screaming
filled my head all day.
It was as though
I'd been spit here
settled in
into the pocket
of a lighthouse
on some rocky socket
off the coast of France, dear.
One afternoon,
4000 men
died in the water here
and 500 more were thrashing madly
as parasites might
in your blood
and I... Read More

When driving a car is just a fantasy,
and the bus drivers are paid to hate your guts,
and getting caught in the wrong neighbourhood
can mean a trip to the hospital,
and getting home from the hospital
means begging abjectly for a ticket
you may not be permitted to use,
and sleeping in the emerg ward... Read More

My heart's squeaky clean.
Once the butter and baking is done,
I bathe it until it's white again.

art students use power tools
outdoors
in the distance
in the rain
under a birch
and a mother's smile.