seventy years a bachelor known and regular, his mother kept house to the end. he put out word, and her sob story got to him. but it didn’t matter to his sisters what she did or didn’t, she was the usurper, she had moved in on him; housekeeper/gardener be damned. facts were gathered: stuffing the […]
blue skies poetry is looking for new poetry submissions. blue skies poetry provides a forum for emerging and established poets to find a wider audience for their work, with a particular emphasis on writing by Canadians. blue skies poetry publishes more than 100 poems a year and boasts more than 1500 visits each month. blue […]
I’ve been hanging out with poetryfresh, rosy-cheeked imagestrim, lilting phraseshigh-stepping across the page fuck the pretty words I want a poet with the gutsto visit the industrial part of townlate winter views that will make no tourist brochuregrimy snow banksrotting, leaking thin mudchip bags snagged against chain linkleaden skies, pothole roads a poet pulling to […]
Honeybees hum mutiny. Listen! There are pandemic repercussions in their slogans. Where each hive was once a colony, joyful, brimming idealism and bounty, it is now modernized to factory, a perfect assembly line. The pollen of discontent sifts ever thicker clouds their sense of purpose, as workers grow sticky with longing for the quiet universe […]
Honey, each spoonful a liquid moment of summer, 556 bees drone through their six week life span to create one pound of honey. Bees splatter the windshield as I race north on this slash of highway twinned now to let us hurry by ever faster. My mind hums bee stories. I notice hives hunkered all […]
