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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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Cascadian Byways
Comfortably Lonely, Cabin Porch
Comfortably lonely, cabin porch hard back book foggy overslept hard back chair backpack hangs on a wooden peg empty but
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Are no Stranger
Between night and light
the space between night and light when bats dive like fiery planes battles over borders foggy lines on faded maps
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Cascadian Byways
One Way These Tracks
One way these tracks run directly into the elevator then somehow into Mt. Hood turning east stopped by a wooden
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Vancouver Grey
Waiting Only Twice a Day
Trying to say kind words, “surely room for all” waiting on the 15 Cambie amidst dig and cover moving one
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Waiting (and Resisting) in Baghdad – Postcard #47
A story about Iraqi resistance fighters and their personal motivations by a young writer called Waiting in Baghdad is the
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach, Remembering Remembrance
(Meta)Physical Conditions of the Environment – Postcard #46
Taking a Remembrance Day respite to enjoy a conscious discussion with ‘Trigger’ at Vancouver’s New Amsterdam Cafe, Dave O listens
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Awakening to the Dawn of Potential – Postcard #45
Part 6 of the “White Poppies for Remembrance” series considers the opportunity cost of the lost human potential while at
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Righteous Declarations for Humans – Postcard #44
Part 5 of the White Poppies for Remembrance series continues with Dave at Victory Park, this time reading the United
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Old Man Punk
Errant Gaze (20-something punk)
Blondes in tanktops they can’t defer the passion lingering for my home and her A healthy meal a harmonious deal
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Pondering Flanders at the Cenotaph – Postcard #43
Finding Victory Square in post-ceremony calm, Dave settles onto a bench for lost sailors with some bagpipers to chat about John
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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach, Remembering Remembrance
Buddhas in the Trenches – Postcard #42
Part 3 of the White Poppies for Remembrance series (recorded Nov. 2006) features reading from the Dhammapada by Siddhartha Gautama
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Meta Pod notes, Remembering Remembrance
White Poppies for Remembrance podcast series at PfGB
In case you aren’t checking out the Postcards from Gravelly Beach spoken word literature podcasts i brew up (they ain’t
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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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Postcards fr. Gravelly Beach
Geological Storytime with Sheep – Postcard #40
Down on Lenker’s farm, Dave O checks in on the animal inventory and riffs his own freeverse poetry about canyon
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Vancouver Grey
standing up already
standing up already prepared for something classified as an unlikely event “in the unlikley event” suggesting a guffaw in less
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