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Ignacio comes from Toronto guides tourists to freshwater caves (cenotes) of the Yucatan peninsula where death once rained down destroying the Earth once again. Ignacio knows his geological shit about the ebb and flow of oceans...

My wife bought a string of prayer flags to hang on the porch of our apartment. In this time of disease of biology, society and political leadership, I hope that prayers sent into the air will fill the void left by my disbelief...

On Salvage Avenue the old-growth trees on either side of the street form an arch as in a sacred place, pleasant shade in springtime walking back to school after lunch or in autumn before the leaves fall and the birch trees shed...

Sometimes, when I take a bath and recline in the cool water on a hot day, I just want to be human, undefined by profiles or history: my bath water is not the mighty Mississippi, I am not forging my way through the underbrush by...

Frederick Douglass should have been the first African American to occupy the oval office, but America was nowhere near ready for such a campaign. I can only imagine how brilliant he was. Born into a world barely able to accept...

taking time off from work on a weekday – it’s wednesday morning. no plans but to lay out in bed and listen to a patter of the rain we’ve been getting. in the next room, my girlfriend’s on a phonecall with her...

and it’s not quite exactly like shopping or anything, but it’s so close it sours the mood. I walk into town on these various saturdays and loiter by jewellers like a kid on a weekend, eyeing pedestrians for someone...

they rise like new mushrooms on a bright august morning. there is a space between houses and shopfronts, and you are there, crossing the road. over some buildings a rented crane rises, raising and landing its cargo. stalls are...

Definitely the wrong play. I had auditioned for the lead in Siren Song. The neurotic alcoholic wife who is cheating on her husband. Thought it would be great fun. Close to home. But how did I get in this boring play. Hardly any...

We were told of streets paved with gold twenty virgins in diaphanous gowns lying languidly on velvet couches piles of haloes & harps & alabaster robes seraphim serving goblets of sweet amnesia we were told our miserable...

Books and books written entire forests razed some wizened scientists say no some fellowed professors say yes let’s vote and be done with it after all we are a democracy Gore v. Bush not withstanding Citizens United shoved aside...

Consider the dinosaur at the mossy spring, The massive shape, the wide-spaced feet Shuffling slowly among stuttering ferns. Its words are movements, steps placed Then underlined by long heavy tail, Leaving pool-words, phrases of...