…the trees melting, returning
to their first red elements
on all sides, cutting me off
from escape or the saving
lake.
(Margaret Atwood, The Two Fires, from Selected Poems)
Aging Gracefully
Agnostic
Alaska Highway – to Beaver Creek
Alberta Badlands
Along the Naramata Trail
Amore
Another Day in the City
Apology
Armoured Personnel Carrier
At the Coffee Shop in Chemainus
At a Parking Lot in Edmonton
Boogeyman, The
Boreal Trail
Breakfast with Dad
British Columbia Cycling Trip
Bruce Trail Hike
Butterfly Net
Café in Vernon
Canadian Dime
Carvings of Birds
Childhood Home
Colonel, The
Conversations with Dad
Dad’s Cooking
Darts
Decision Conflict
Deep Lake – Kamloops
Don’t Break the Chain
Drama at the Beach
Dreams
Drumheller
Dry Island Buffalo Jump
Elsewhere
Embarrassment
Faces of Animals
Fall, The
Finding Oneself
First Words
Forest
Forgiveness
Frontenac
Gananoque: Thousand Islands
Goodbye, Again
Gros Morne Mountain
Gymnastics Coach, The
Hawk and the Snake, The
Helping Mother, The
Hermit Trail, The
Hockey Game, The
Homesick
Housekeeper
Ice Cream Cone
Incident with the Horse
In My Dreams
Juan de Fuca Trail
Language Rhythms
Lessons Learned from Dad
Life of a B Student
Life of One’s Choosing
Longing
Love Calling
Mantario Trail
Mariner’s Compass
Memory Box, The
Moka
Mount Field
Musician, The
Niagara Falls: An Afternoon Stroll
Niagara-on-the-Lake Ghost Story
Now
Ode to the California Quail of the Okanagan
On the Sunshine Coast Trail
One Day
One-Shot Mike
Online Marketplace
Parental Love
Peace Lily
Petty Argument in Old Québec
Pizzeria
Pondering Descartes
Presently
Prickly Pear Cactus
Productivity
Purpose
Quest to Find a Western Rattlesnake
Questions to Clear the Fog
Reconsidering Death
Reflecting on My Place in the Universe
Reflections on the Road – Yukon River
Sadie Hawkins Dance
Scent of fresh water, The
Shaving at the Beach
Silver City – Ghost Town
Skaha Lake
Soup
Spring Bloom
Sunshine Coast
Taking the Road Less Traveled
This Evening in Rural Alberta
This Morning at the Gymnasium
Through a Montebello Window
Through the Kitchen Window
Time Passes
To Journey
To Live a Long Life
Trinidad
Tristan and Isolde
Underground Spirits at Grassi Lakes
Used Book Store
What Does This Poem Mean?
What Do My Books Say About Me?
What I Learned at the Dinosaur Museum
When Lady Diana died
When No One is Looking
Where No One Else Has Gone
Whisky Jack
Why Do I Do It?
Why Do People Move to the Yukon?
Wildlife Along the Alaska Highway
Wine
Yarrow
Young Woman on the Street