Image: Post-Modernist Phallusy
May 17, 2022The Development of First & Commercial
May 16, 2022I have today published a new research essay on the 15-year fight for the development of the old Grandview High school site at First & Commercial.
The essay can be found at: https://grandviewheritagegroup.ca/2022/05/16/battle-for-the-school-site-1940-1955/
I hope you find it of interest.
Poem: Southern Comfort
May 16, 2022
It was a slam bam thank you ma’am kind of night.
“It’s alright,” she said with a slight frisson of uncertainty perhaps
as she unwraps and taps the money-box on the dresser.
He pays to caress her, to possess her as she bumps and grinds
and too quickly finds the kind of passion paid for.
He wants more before he’ll leave: sixteen and still hard.
But she’s on guard, body barred against free love.
Push came to shove. Above his pleas she screamed and screamed
until the apartment teemed with neighbours and passers-by
who wondered why this nigger came by and by to be in a white girl’s room.
It’s a warm, hormone-rushing, mosquito-swarming kind of night.
Fox-fire bright, passions tightly wound and sprung.
No brass bells are rung, no masses sung, but masses gather to enjoy
the black boy toy with the last of his time on a slippery slope
as the hempen rope grips and gropes for his hopeless neck.
Nakba Day 2022
May 15, 2022On Nakba Day — the day of the catastrophe — we remember the millions of Palestinians violently displaced from their homes at the creation of Israel in 1948.
We remember this year with especial importance as the carnage continues in full force this week and every week, and celebrate the Palestinians who have survived almost 75 years of State-sponsored apartheid, genocide, and general brutality at the hands of a regime financed and supported by almost every Western government. and media organization
Britannia Renewal Open Houses
May 14, 2022Getting to the nitty-gritty of renewal issues. If you are interested …

There is more information at https://britanniarenewal.org/
Poem: In The Time Of The Dying
May 9, 2022
In the time of the dying of the leaves,
when summer’s solace is a memory passed,
and deepening shadows of evening cast
their pall ‘cross rich man’s roof and beggar’s eaves,
colours primary, raw, blast out a last
spectacular fanfare: embroidered sleeves
to counterpoint the widow’s darkling weeds
shows off to the night no matter how vast
eternity approaching, no matter
no one escapes the black hole’s pull of doom,
and each lifes’ cloth will be cut from the loom,
no matter this, ‘tis only now that matters;
the now that paints the tree with red and gold,
regrets nothing, wants only to stay old.
Smallpox! Grandview’s Isolation Hospital
May 3, 2022.
I have today published another research essay, this one tells the history of the smallpox Isolation Hospital erected in Grandview in 1892 and which stayed in place until it became part of Templeton Park in 1912.
The essay can be read at https://grandviewheritagegroup.ca/blog
Poem: Harvest
May 2, 2022
It’s raining;
trapped in the house again
with a bottle and the balance
of the sandwich
from yesterday:
I’ll stretch the bread from here to tomorrow.
Harvesting the crumbs
from carpet and cardigan,
I will not be worried
in the midst of such plenty.
It’s raining again.