Wednesday, March 27, 2019

once a home...


they perch on sites worth so many millions
above spanish banks and the burrard inlet -
these three modest pseudo-mansions of the 
last century now looking forlorn, abandoned


they have been sitting neglected for years 
in the overgrown and barely fenced off lots -
waiting for their inevitable demise to make
way for ever larger versions to rise again


once the residential pride of a few families
 such vanquished homes are now reduced to 
another boarded up desecration for those 
with the means to build bigger and biggest



Thursday, March 7, 2019

dispersing...


the passing of winter into spring
and a vaporous life rises on a wild bird's song
disperses wide over the affirming sea
that private sea calm to the heart belong...