"...passing gingerly by bare walls, tired furniture.." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #lightandshadow #plants #canada

"...summer’s cooling squalls ricochet off Rideau..." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #river #clouds #storm #canada

woodland reliquary 📸: my own #photography #nature #canada

"why is resilience so quiet?"  (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #flowers #nature #canada

"... a drop of light shapes the dark"  (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #leaves #trees #shadows #canada

"some perspectives of beauty can be wounded" (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #flower #rain #canada

"...the songs of the Red-winged Blackbird taken for granted..." (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #blackbird #bird #canada

"...as jays sash the hot air ..." (from one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #bird #bluejay #Ottawa #nature #canada

"All days would be today, I thought but even that day didn’t last." — from "Wild Strawberries" (published in Anomaly https://f.mtr.cool/pvyphwyoit 📸: my own #poetry #poem #spring #naturephotography

A final post for #nationalpoetrymonth : #EmilyDickinson   "A WORD. A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day." -Emily Dickinson #npm2026 #poetrylovers #poem #poetry

Another post for National Poetry Month:  "The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough,  may last." -- Louise Glück #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #npm2026 #quotes #quotesoftheday #poetrylovers #LouiseGlück #poem

In light of April being poetry month: “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #npm2026

These geopolitical days has me thinking of my poem "Has the West Always Been Uncivilized?" published last year in @poetrysuperhwy.bsky.social last year (https://f.mtr.cool/jfvfxpfrmw)  #peaceful #coexistence

So grateful to be in included in the inaugural issue of "Only Human: English Language Senryu" ! @onlyhumansenryu.bsky.social  Many thanks to AJ Wentz and David Oates for including 2 of my poems. #senryu

"islands: / gardens / of wintry dust" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #snow

"the soft blue light, a shoreline against the sky" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #mist

"a parting from all that accumulated weight embraced through time" (from one of my poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #winter #mist #BlueskyPoets #Ottawa #nature #writingcommunity #canada

"a tender release from expectation like a skin of frost scrapping air" (from on of my untitled poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #winter #frost #BlueskyPoets #Ottawa #nature #writingcommunity #canada

"Missteps as I learned to father and to husband" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #life #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #birds

"Every wave a new line; every wag a punctuation of joy." (a little more of a tongue-in-cheek piece - Happy Birthday Rosie) 📸: my own #poetry #Atlantic #CapeBreton #Ocean #Dog #dogsofbluesky

These words are... insufficient. Miss you dad.  📸: my own #nature #art #photography #naturephotography

"We are built of the spaces we no longer fill." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #solitude

"How do you wound a memory? " (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #memory

"If silence had texture, it would feel like this" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #solitude #ottawa

"I’d be the physics of no edges,  of haze from afar and clarity up close" #poetry #fog #nature #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own

“All days would be today, I thought  but even that day didn’t last.” Missing you a little extra today. Happy birthday, Dad. (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #Poetry #WritersOfBluesky #GriefJourney #NaturePhotography

"everywhere only white everywhere. The wind your only friend.” (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #winter #naturephotography #solitude

"grief settles the way snow does: soft,  and suddenly everywhere" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poetsofbsky #memory #winter #naturephotography #ottawa

"...you are walking toward what you cannot see, and you are leaving behind what you cannot save..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #writingcommunity #nature

"....all memory is a door that only opens in, and no amount of force will breach the lock...." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #forest #writingcommunity #nature

"...I walk, but my shadow walks further, always leading the way ... it is the only thing I have left that exceeds me..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #fall #writingcommunity #nature

"...a river's chorus, lamenting our loneliness. Today, it sings of fire. Soon, of ash..."  (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #fall #autumn  #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #forest #solitude #writingcommunity #nature

"...the old skin, sliced off. New purpose, waiting in the bone...." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #Autumn #Duality #Fornever #Poetry #Solitude #writingcommunity #fall

"...the quiet, soft gloom of it all, and understand how beauty mourns more true than any word..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #grief #fieldnotes #poemfragment #naturepoem #BlueskyPoets #NaturePhotography

"You said you lived a good life....to love is to accept shadows..." (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #moon #solitude #poemfragment #writingcommunity #night

"a river of stars  shares the silence  as we flicker on the shore" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #Poetry #NightSky #Photography #Canada #nature #writingcommunity

"the sharp edges of shifting winds slice off the old skin" (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #PoetryCommunity, #PoetryOfCanada, #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Photography #Canada #nature

Honoured to have my poem “Abandoned Boyhood” published in Canada Poetry Magazine (@ Wax Poetry & Art). You can read it here: https://f.mtr.cool/nofiawotav #Poetry #LitMag #PoetryCommunity #CanadianWriters #AmWritingPoetry

“A lake holds its breath, while the sky rehearses” (Yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) Photo : my own #Poetry #NightSky #Photography #Canada #nature #writingcommunity

“Some treasures can’t be carried, only stood upon.…” (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #grief #forDad #fieldnotes #lightandloss #poemfragment #naturepoem #remains #BlueskyPoets #HikingWithDogs #NaturePhotography #WildernessViews #DogsOfBluesky #AdventureDog

“…what remains / still leans into the light” —for Dad (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #grief #forDad #fieldnotes #lightandloss #poemfragment #naturepoem #remains #BlueskyPoets

“Somewhere deeper in, we find the walls we didn’t know we built.” (yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #naturepoetry #BlueskyPoets #writersofBluesky #forest #solitude #poemfragment #writingcommunity #nature

" Spores drifting — dust becoming life again." (from one of my poems-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #micropoem #forestpoetry #mushrooms #canada #nature #poetrycommunity

"The calm calls: mirrored fog, all thoughts unfinished." (from my untitled poem-in-progress) 📸: my own #poetry #poem #dock #mist #BlueskyPoets #OttawaPoet #nature #writingcommunity #canada

"The places where shadows never stop nestling,” (from a recent poem I am still working on.) 📸: my own #poetry #blueskypoets #canlit #moonlight #naturepoetry #poetsofbluesky #originalpoetry #landscapephotography #selfshot #poetryandphotography #moon #nature

Honoured to be featured this week as a Poet of the Week at Poetry Super Highway. Two of my poems—"Has the West Always Been Uncivilized?" and "A Beautiful Life of Loneliness"—are up now: 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/gajtcojzoc #poetry #PoetOfTheWeek #WritingLife @poetrysuperhwy.bsky.social

Dangling, bewildered / in golden rays. Rosie, the watcher of dusk. 📸: my own #Poetry #Dust #Sunset #NatureVerse #GoldenHour #DogsofBluesky #ecopoetry #poetrycommunity #canada #landscapephotography #nature

The gloamy morning frays into day as we linger in our awe (from a poem about a deer) #poetry #mistymorning #ecopoetry #smallpress #writersky #poetrycommunity #writersky #bluesky #photography #art #reflectoin #fall #poem

Some say they no longer see me, others flee my silence. (from a poem where shadows say more than light) 📸: my own #poetry #concretepoetry #urbanstillness #shadowplay #poetrycommunity #guilt #writersky #bluesky #photography #art #OldCity #poems #poem

My lungs grew strong and grew used to the briny mist. (from a poem about heat, grief, and the body's memory of water) 📸: Taken on the shores of PEI — a place that still breathes in me. #ecopoetry #poetrycommunity #smallpress #PEI #canada #naturepoetry #blueskywriters #landscapephotography #nature