As vast as the vastlands of this vast land, poet, are you to yonder skies, breads and local cheeses.

I am grateful for libraries (iPad)

and poetry (iPad). Lorca’s line

‘La Clooney del bello Jorge sigue . . .’

is where George Clooney got his stage name.

Many tried to be ‘The Lorca of Canada’

but stopped when being ‘The Octavio Paz

of Sault Ste. Marie’ proved sufficient.

Entre la tarde Timbits y la noche.

Life in Canada is just bear attack

after bear attack. It always happens,

as incalculable as the number of times

Irving Layton used the word loins.

In the animal kingdom, no creature

kills for sport except the otter.

In the plant world, there are few things

as objectionable as balsam fir.