when in montreal

written on a cell phone notes app on august 8, 2017. poem.

another installment of the “Cell Phone Notes” series. if you think these are A Lot, you should see the ones i tapped out on my iPhone SE in 2015.

features: imagery involving a trip to a Canadian lakehouse that you have never been to. but the imagery includes dogs and turtles so, really, how can you refuse? to be honest the whole poem is a bit stale, and i would have struck it from the website, except the last part about bees is quite nice. manages to get me every time.

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notes on the road #1

written on a cell phone notes app on August 1, 2017. one of many, many winding and long-suffering poems that i have on my iPhone. although still not as long-suffering as our drive up to Buffalo, New York. perhaps if this was written during a run to the grocery store it would be much neater.

features: lots of discourse about trees, the weather, and the color green. also some general senses of ennui and existential dread.

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