Inspired by Erin Hunter
 On the first day of cat-mus my mate gave to me
A kit mother sitting in her cave…
 12 leader s dying
11 deputies hunting
10 medicine cats healing
9 warriors wounded
8 apprentices eating
7 queens-a-nursing
6 kits-a-feeding
5 elders
4 stone-tellers
3 prey-hunters
2 cave-guards
And a kit-mother sitting in her cave
REVIEW – Rose DeShaw
Flora Jo is a young Metis poet, presently in [...]

Nowhere is it more true that a book can be like ‘a vacation in the pocket,’ than with PLEASANTLY DEAD by Judith Alguire. (Signature Editions, Doug Whiteway Ed., 185 pp. 2009).
 ‘The Pleasant’ is the name of an Inn in Ontario Cottage Country, the sort of place that would be packed to the rafters, if it [...]

Christmas Hurting
(Tune: Here Comes Santa Claus)
Here comes Christmas
I can’t handle it
Expectations by all
Parties, laughter, children singing
Friends who come to call
I’m learning how to say to all
I don’t feel merry & bright
But with your support
I’ll make it through
Another long Christmas night!
and
(Tune: I’ll Be Home for Christmas)
All those drunken Christmases
All those years of pain
We can put behind [...]