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I know a place deep in the woods, Beside a bubbling stream. A place where folks once talked and toiled.  Now silence reigns supreme.  And in this place they made what was A pleasure and a [...]

by Tim Armour At RVH he’s Doctor Veitch. His foe is carcinoma. If tumours lurk within his reach They’re dead or in a coma. His master craft is medicine. His field’s oncology, Whereas my streak of [...]

Some years ago, a Saturday in Creemore, in the A.M. I met a friend at Caroline and Mill. We shot some bull and chewed the fat amidst the weekend mayhem. No worries, as we both had time to kill. [...]

The Russian Federation is divided into states, or provinces, if that word is your preference. But in the Russian language there’s a word that designates these regions, so I use that word in [...]

by Tim Armour I like to play a game with names. Their letters I’ll reshuffle. Among this exercise’s aims? To make some feathers ruffle. I’ll pick a puffed up popinjay And give his name a jumble. [...]

by Tim Armour So now they’ve sworn in Donald Trump again as Main Commander. This huge buffoon. This horse’s rump. If I may speak with candor, His plethora of rhetoric is verbal diarrhea. Anathema [...]

by Tim Armour On the horns of a dilemma ‘s what we’re balanced on the brink of. Is one place more precarious? No. None that I can think of. Of late I’ve heard a lot of talk on A. I… Boon or [...]

This is a poem I wrote for my dad’s 98th birthday at this time last year. As it turned out it was his last birthday as he died last summer. I call it my (mind’s) eyewitness account of his [...]

On one warm day this fall I took chainsaw and maul Out to tackle my firewood pile, To lay by winter fuel For the season of yule And beyond, for a warm domicile. When I levered a log And I gave it [...]

Six victims of monogamy, Escaped to Lake Temagami. The purpose of this expedition? Relaxation, drinkin’, fishin’. Yet two could not just cut and run. Each took in tow a teenage son. Each year [...]