A Canadian music historian, Aaron Lusch, found an album I recorded as a teen in Halifax, Nova Scotia and posted this track on You Tube - my very first attempt at songwriting. When I taught writing poetry, I would ask students to interact with the world, to simply look outside their windows and write about what they saw. There was an old man living on our street in Downsview. If I recall, he was living
Hello on my revamped web site: Nearly a year into the pandemic. One bright spot was the reading of a poem entitled "Armorless" by David Vickery from England. Diagnosed with an immune deficiency, I composed the poem, adding a female warrior to combat the deficit. Unfortunately, the early version of the poem used a male warrior. Nonetheless.