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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
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
Poetry 1990-1995
Skinny
Dipping on the Mississippi Lake
Poetry
1995-1997
Beating
My Wings Against the Blue House
Blue House Winter God(original) Blue House Winter God (edited)
February 10(original) February 10(edited)
Longing(original) Longing(edited)
March 5(original) March 5(edited)
Reflection
on the Floor of the Synagogue in Saint John
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)
Calculating
*
NEW* Canadian
Postmortem *NEW*
Waiting
for a Plane at the Halifax Airport