#3056 Dylan Thomas

Emily Carr, Ottawa museum

I came across this quote from Dylan Thomas, which embodies perfectly what poetry does ( or try to do anyway)

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick, you’re back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the work of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in

#3055 simple news

Montreal in winter

First (compulsory) trip since the beginning of the pandemic. There is not a lot of joy in traveling across the globe anymore. There is a clear cut between before and after. In the tiny bag I have taken with me so that it doesn’t get lost on the way no room for a computer and this means no accents for my French speaking friends for a while

Un blog experimental voue a la poesie du quotidien sous toutes ses formes/An experimental blog devoted to poetry in all its forms