Arrived home after #remembranceday, 2009
Arrived home after #remembranceday activities to find snow in my yard – hoping for a weekend of strolling in woods […]
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Remembering Remembrance
Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Banjo Sea Shanties and Beat Train Rambles – Postcard #51
Starting at the Steamboat Island Woodshed, Dave rambles salty original freeverse with Wm. Lenker on banjo and traces personal poetic
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Peace to Soldiers and Strangers – Postcard #48
Back home on the North Vancouver porch, Dave reads from Clay Mcleod’s essay Why I Don’t Wear a Poppy while
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Transit Chronicles, Video Dim Sum
Waiting for the Bus Again: Commute 4
A bus ride and stroll from a North Vancouver bus stop in front of a pet shop to downtown Vancouver’s
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach, Remembering Remembrance
White Poppies on a Rainyday Coat – Postcard #41
Part 2 of the White Poppies for Remembrance series finds Dave O eating oatmeal in North Van before heading downtown
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Improvising Over Hedges – Postcards #38
Busting out a bit of original (un)sung freeverse with guitar-toting pal Bread, a shaker egg, and a stack of freeverse
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Lanterns for Welsh Miners – Postcard #34
Dave reads a smattering from Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac and original verse written in Germany in 1992, joined by Trauben
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Kerouac’s San Francisco in Dave’s Vancouver – Postcard #30
On a North Van hillside, Dave reads a few choruses from Jack Kerouac’s “San Francisco Blues” and talks about “Ti
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Short Fiction, Coincidentally about Drinking – Postcard #20
Out on a nighttime walk, Dave sits in the frosty grass under a tree, by a pond, with a Guinness
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Snowy Nighttime Porch with Raccoons – Postcard #19
From a snowy porch with raccoons chirping nearby, Dave reads from Richard Brautigan, Phillip Whalen, ee cummings, Walt Whitman plus
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A Wabi-Sabi, Foggy Morning – Postcard #18
On a foggy morning with Osmanthus tea, Dave reads tales by professor Larry Harper – “The Man Who Loved Provo,”
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach, Remembering Remembrance
Robert Burns on Remembrance Day – Postcard #17
With a head full of cold medicine, Dave reads a haibun poem for Remembrance day and then enjoys John Cairney
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Rainy Day with Letters and Tolling Bells – Postcard #16
On a rainy day in North Van, Dave – with strong coffee – reads two more “Letters from Russia” plus
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Ice Skates and Vancouver Writers – Postcard #15
Dave – on a couch with red wine – reads short story snippets by Gordon Cavenaile and himself, plus a
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Streaming Consciousness with Joyce from a North Shore Porch – Postcard #14
Dave – from a porch in Vancouver’s North Shore – dedicates his favourite part of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” to a
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