The Tickle (for Sara and Alex)
Some say no one really knows where the river begins, or how many springs draw from deep to feed its mighty trunk
The here and now
Twitching whiskers, a panoramic adventure: a scruffy fieldmouse, regretting its curiosity...
For Jillian (on her wedding)
Now the circle has widened, and that same ray refracts and floods new spaces with Hope and Promise anew. The seeds have been sown and the harvest will once again fill the granaries.
Aboiteau
The aboiteau allowed saltwater marshes to be eventually replenished with fresh water so that they would have agricultural utility. This poem uses the aboiteau, not as a commentary on Acadian history, but as a statement of my own personal journey.
Pointe-Sapin
“Fait beau!” is how you’re greeted when you gas up at the Co-op or when you walk by one of the yards bursting with flowers and fierté acadienne, with the Deportation of 1755 in the past, but not too much so.
Review of “Soviet but Not Russian” by W. Mandel (1985)
The author’s methodology is faulty and his conclusions are not only suspect but tell us little about political and economic life for the Soviet nationalities and even less about the relations among them.