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By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on May 20, 2017July 9, 2018

All I remember

All I remember of that white-flowering tree is the open blue sky and the silence all around, the dog’s red leash in my hand

By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on April 11, 2017May 1, 2017

Life and limb

Two stories high, on a pale green branch, where only the wail of the buzz-saw and the silence of the limb prevails, a tree-service man executes a perfect warrior pose: … Continue reading Life and limb

By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on April 1, 2017

Heart–a bit of flash non-fiction

In 1956 when I was ten, my family moved from our post-war, veterans’ cottage on Viau Street in Montréal Est‎ to West Hill Avenue in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce; I told my best … Continue reading Heart–a bit of flash non-fiction

By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on March 30, 2017April 5, 2017

To the beautiful snowman across the street

Oh, elegant Mr. Snowman, thank you for your jaunty self—cool, standing embodiment of beguiling temporariness! And yes, I know, you’ll remember the day you accepted beret and bright red scarf … Continue reading To the beautiful snowman across the street

By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on January 28, 2017April 6, 2017

Sound and scene in winter

  Crunch of boot on ice, a neighbor’s shovel chopping–precisely-placed eighth notes for a sheet of winter music, presto through the snow. A woman–her coat’s all silver against the dark … Continue reading Sound and scene in winter

By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on September 23, 2016October 18, 2016

50th Grad Year Reunion

Einstein might’ve enjoyed our fiftieth grad year reunion— to sit with us, joke and guffaw in a place between then and now, where minutes like pearls tumble unclasped from the … Continue reading 50th Grad Year Reunion

By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on April 9, 2016April 17, 2016

Reprieve

When the door of the heart blows open, the greedy hands of time grow slack and minutes like runaway soldiers find reprieve as from the face of war: the heart … Continue reading Reprieve

By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on February 16, 2016

Trick of Light

Just here, with his toothy smile, big bushy beard, warm heart: gone in a trick of Light that whisked him sideways out of his body so fast there’s no telling … Continue reading Trick of Light

By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on January 25, 2016February 7, 2016

Caribou in Cote Saint-Luc

The stuff of time is elusive as elk at the dawn of the last ice age– musk scent of herd, hoof cracks on ice, fast-splattered snow, then silence as in … Continue reading Caribou in Cote Saint-Luc

By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on November 7, 2015November 7, 2015

The line between

Where is the line between this world and the next? Or is it, rather, that pool the shamans use—a screech of arctic owl, wizard eyes glistening in the midnight sun? … Continue reading The line between

By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on October 28, 2015October 18, 2016

Fall, 2015

It feels as though time’s grasp is breaking. I see blood- colored berries clinging fast to thin brown twigs etched against the sky, bone-white arms of birches angled upward, juiceless … Continue reading Fall, 2015

By margaretjoyce1358 Posted on September 28, 2015September 30, 2015

Mid-morning walk on Golf Course Rd.

A rush of starlings past a tall birch, dry leaves prattling to the stark September sky, a road with filtered light, a golf ball in an asphalt pot-hole; a white … Continue reading Mid-morning walk on Golf Course Rd.

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