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Wishful Thinking (diary of an optimist)

 

“Most experiences are unsayable;

they happen in a place that

no word had ever entered”

--Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

 

 

To contribute to Wishful Thinking:  Email the work for consideration and a short biography to

wishful_writing@yahoo.ca

 

 

Poetry

 

“For words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within”

--Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memorium, V

 

                                    1990-1995                               1995-1997                               1997-2000                               2000-present

 

 

 

Script Work

 

“The play’s the thing/Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King”

--Shakespeare, Hamlet II:2

 

 

 

Prose Work

 

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short”

--Henry David Thoreau, Letter November 26, 1867

 

            My Dark Beginnings                        I Packed My Baggage                   GodStory                   Story_Weave

 

 

 

Personal Journal

 

“Aureliano skipped eleven pages so as not to lose time with facts he knew only too well, and he began to decipher the instant he was living, deciphering it as he lived it, prophesying himself in the act of deciphering the last page of the parchments, as if he were looking into a speaking mirror”

--Garbriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

 

Visiting the Optomitrist

 

 

 

Poetry 1990-1995

 

Skinny Dipping on the Mississippi Lake

Sonnet iii

Sonnet iv

Sonnet v

Sonnet vi

Teenage Fantasy

Untitled 1

Untitled 2

Untitled 3

Untitled 4

 

 

Poetry 1995-1997

 

            Beating My Wings Against the Blue House

            Blue House Blues

            Blue House Winter God(original)                                                                          Blue House Winter God (edited)

            Bribery

            Doobey’s

            Ducky’s

            February 10(original)                                                                                               February 10(edited)

            Good-Bye Jonny C

            Jonny C

            Longing(original)                                                                                                      Longing(edited)

            March 5(original)                                                                                                     March 5(edited)

            March 6

            On the Bus

            Reflection on the Floor of the Synagogue in Saint John

            Stormy Break

            The Christmas Mountains

            Train Station

            Valentine’s Day ‘96

            Valentine’s Day ’96—Aaron

            Valentine’s Day ’96—Keith

 

 

Poetry 1997-2000

 

            Always Naked(original)                                                                                                      Always Naked(edited)

            Baseball Diamond(original)                                                                                                Baseball Diamond(edited)

            Me and Jonathan(original)                                                                                                Me and Jonathan(edited)

            Neil and Café 13(original)                                                                                                  Neil and Café 13(edited)

            Patchouli Horse

            Rebound

 

 

Poetry 2000-present

 

Calculating

* NEW*   Canadian Postmortem   *NEW*

Cheesy

Finger Tips and Lips

From the Angry Album

Get Out the Map

Making up After a Break

Rediscovering My Self

Things 2 do 2 day

Waiting for a Plane at the Halifax Airport

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