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156 - Define home. Say, your current one. How does it match with the way you intend to live? How does it respond to the new ways you intend to live? And if you had to leave it, say, in two weeks, how…
You confess your fetish for the public housing block
155 - This home stretch, on a personal level, is incredible. But I suppress it by walking slow, hugging the side of the pavement while fellow pedestrians pass me by. A crispy breeze even in May is…
Should I go back to simpler questions
154 - A bit of breeze even towards the end of April is enough to make the streets all the more temptatious. The opposite of sweet. Sunlight filters through the leaves and into a shrine. The…
In my living room, I have a painting of my living room
153 - You can interpret it as a stolen city, or a city stolen. It's also the kind of poem I want to be able to compose. Apparently, the bench I refer to is an example of 'hostile architecture'. Makes…
I once crawled on that grass when adults were young
152 - It was only after I left last night that I realized he was my current age when he left. Today I start with a poem I had written this time five years ago, followed by a much more mature and…
Each breath patiently destroying me
151 - Is there a name you think of from time to time, someone you met at a party, an event, got their contact but never really kept in touch? In addition to a poem I wrote Tuesday morning dedicated…
Bride-to-be on the cusp of being reborn
150 - It was the book cover that got me and so I picked it up. I read it in a cafe while mumbling the words wanting so hard to say them out loud, to articulate the urgency of operating within a given…
I don't know how secrets are spread
149 - One day. I will let go. Of this perceived incompletion. My plights relative to the city. Words that may or may not be enough to earn a place in a sentence I don't even want to complete. That…
To spin or to orbit
148 - After reading I realized a few of my lines might have touched the concept of commitment and how one may fear it for its foundation seem to be built on fear itself. I also read a poem from a…
Pivots and dimes
147 - Trying to spin out of this solitary doldrum. If friends can make my process less rigid, I'm all for collaboration. That, and more nimble ways of living with loss. Not in any mood to…
The poetics of falling short
146 - Two interviews. Thirty years apart. Each in a building equally complex. States of mind. Variations of floating.Website:…
From stranger to more than
145 - On the verge of leaving a dream job to interview for a dream job that isn't so much a dream anynore but an 'I owe it to myself'. But this isn't about that. Not when those you dine with turn out…
Avenues that pop up whenever they stall at a crowded intersection
144 - On handwriting and crushes, and the presense of a song that tells me I ought to look far and away and outside of myself.Website:…
Often boiling with I know
143 - It's been cold. I went out in my thickest coat and was still shivering. Today I bring you a piece I wrote just before Christmas, plus a poem by John Ashbery. People are still trying to figure…
Things that are here versus things that aren't
142 - Just so I don't fall through a well to end the year. Here I'd like to share two prose poems, one of which I wrote very recently as part of a book manuscript I'm working on. I'll continue to use…
A start with the finish inside itself
141 - A walk through the park. A ravine. A pond. A poem by Kevin Irie. And a bit of reflection on the baseball. Straight to you once again from 105.9 The Region, broadcasting from Toronto, Canada.…
A foundational state of being without language
140 - At the library I pick out my outfit. I wear it on the bus and on my way to the studio. Thoughts on writing and wilderness from the former Canadian poet laureate John Steffler. Straight to you…
People here still ask me where I'm from
139 - Straight to you from the studio of 105.9 The Region broadcasting from Toronto, Canada. Cheers to poetry from Chinese-Canadian poets Isabella Wang and Natalie Lim. In your words I found the kind…
No witness but your quiet vow to begin
138 - Pre-flight and other postponements. From my tiny room I bring you a quartet of Hong Kong poets with a mix of works in English and Canto. Three of them have a Canadian connection. Florence Ng…
Most of this route is the wait itself
137 - And so we go for a ride on Alternative Bus Routes in a City Long Gone, Portia Yu's micro-chap published by Ghost City Press as part of their 2025 Summer Series. Portia is a fellow Hong Kong…
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