Biographical Information My work has appeared in Canadian, U.K., U.S, Irish, Australian and Austrian magazines. My publications include Only a Dragon and Calendar of Rain, winners of the 2002 and 2004 Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award (Canada);.a chapbook, Edith (a series of poems on Nurse Edith Cavell) courtesy of Flarestack Publishing (UK).and my latest book, Love in the (Irrational) Imperfect published by Hidden Brook Press (Canada). A long term expat Canadian, I currently live in Oxford, England.

NO RULES

It was as if you could say nothing,
do anything
and it would not matter.  Now
the glass is cracked, the curtain
torn, the gold
is fool's gold, the seven-league boots
- yours
till you grew tall enough to touch the sky -
the perfect place
to jump from, fall
                      down
                      from.  Believe a straight line
between then and now and you lie -  
no giveaway maps,
no rules
backdate between.  Rivers were there to be drained,
forests clear-cut, wolves shot, mountains moved -  
all that unregulated rape still
has to be paid for.