Arizona with Ole Gramps – Postcard #57
While summertime camping alongside Owl Creek and charging the recorder with the rays of the sun, Dave reads a short […]
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Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56
From Halfmoon Bay on Vancouver Island, Dave gives it up for zen poet hero Gary Snyder and recounts beat history from The Old Ways and logging culture from Myths and Texts plus poems about hitchhiking, girls, baths, clearcuts and the Buddha plus original freeverse poetry.
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Chronicling Interesting Boulders – Postcard #55
Alongside raging Lynn Creek, Dave remarks about boulders which are indeed interesting as the sign pointed out, then reads a
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Post-apocalyptic Skunks and Fevers – Postcard #54
From a skunk-scented perch along Mosquito Creek, Dave spiels about feverish dreams in a Mexican clinic, personal archeology, mirages about
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Howling at Land and Sea – Postcards #53
Visiting the Woodshop on Steamboat Island amidst hayfever and national holidays, Dave and Wm. Lenker exchange spontaneous musical freeverse tales
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Skyscraper Stories about Oceans and Forests – Postcard #52
From a Lougheed skyscraper comes an improvisational reading with guitars – first more ocean-inspired works from Tristan Corbière, Victor Hugo
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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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Poetic Ghosts of New Years Past – Postcard #50
An aural montage of past new years’ evenings featuring Dave O reading from Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” next
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Meandering Past Monuments of Remembrance – Postcards #49
Wrapping up the White Poppies for Remembrance series with a narrative late-night wander through Westminster, London, DaveO meanders past military
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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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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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(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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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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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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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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