A young Bob Dylan, carrying a backpack and wearing winter boots on a summer day in October. A girl in a Halloween costume though I don’t know what she was supposed to be. A girl with purple hair, but that’s nothing. I saw a guy in a yellow X’d, orange city-worker jacket driving a brand new silver Cougar convertible. … Continue reading what i saw
One thing you love about your house. The curtains billow in a breeze. One thing you’d like to change about it (that is changeable). If my bathroom was bright green and white or turquoise and white (or possibly bright yellow and white) tiles I wouldn’t complain. And one thing you’d like to change about it … Continue reading summer postcards: I saw these questions somewhere and answered them because I love everything about the Where and the How of the places each of us live and could talk about it almost endlessly (but not to worry… I’ve kept this short)
A tiny elderly woman in a bulky red parka and too-short trousers the colour of recycling boxes, black boots, the kind you might imagine Winnie the Pooh wearing; in fact her whole look had a sort of Pooh-ish vibe about it. Grey hair fresh out of curlers. She waited in line at the Bulk Barn looking cranky as she … Continue reading things i saw
A little girl, maybe three years old in a puffy red paisley coat and checkered pants—fuchsia and green and purple—yellow boots and a pink floppy hat, rosy-cheeked and chattering, skipping alongside what might have been her grandmother, and I think how this beautiful ensemble, like kid art, can only be created before the opinions of … Continue reading things i saw
A man under a blue umbrella, walking in the not-quite-sunshine of early morning. A woman, blonde, crossing the road with a cane. Another woman, dark haired, staring at the device in her hand while behind her walks, skips, occasionally hops, a boy too blessedly young for a device, picking what appear to be invisible plums from the air. An … Continue reading things i saw
A lone deer at the edge of a field about 100 metres from the highway. A group of men watched from the side of the road. They didn’t look like nature lovers. A teenaged girl sitting alone on a playground swing, smoking. Something about her made me think she’d secretly welcome someone saying hello, but … Continue reading things i saw
Geraniums blooming in the window of a gas station that’s been owned by two brothers for twenty-five years. The kind of place where they pump your gas and chat about the weather and tell you there’s been a gas station on that site since the 1920’s; they clean your windshield and check your oil and … Continue reading things i saw
An older couple in a green van eats lunch and throws bits of things to seagulls at the lake. When the guy notices me watching, he smiles, starts showing off, tries tossing the bits so that the birds will catch them mid-flight. When they do, he looks at me, beams like he’s just performed a circus … Continue reading things i saw
A girl, maybe four years old in a pink snowsuit, lets go of her mum’s hand and lies down next to the sidewalk where the snow is thin and crusty and streaked with black from cars. She flaps arms and legs in a vain attempt to make an angel. Her mum doesn’t stop her, doesn’t fuss about black snow; just … Continue reading things i saw
— toddler’s blue booted feet dancing in silent but uncontainable excitement as his stroller was pushed toward the door of Scholar’s Choice. — black and white dog who began pacing on the back seat of a navy blue car, eyes bright as its person approached with a bag of kibble under her arm. — man in a red beret … Continue reading things i saw
Matilda Magtree 