Author Archives: JC


She is ninety-three.

By JC | Published: April 25, 2011
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What becomes you? Must I choose?

By JC | Published: April 24, 2011
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or loathing: In wood? In stone?

By JC | Published: April 23, 2011
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sacrilege, homage

By JC | Published: April 22, 2011
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To sculpt as worship or as

By JC | Published: April 21, 2011
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I turn Picasso.

By JC | Published: April 20, 2011
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onto stone-cold April earth.

By JC | Published: April 19, 2011
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A eulogy of snow falls

By JC | Published: April 18, 2011
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recite liturgies.

By JC | Published: April 17, 2011
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breakers in exultation

By JC | Published: April 16, 2011
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Long-shadow sunrise;

By JC | Published: April 15, 2011
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stone but colours hands in prayer.

By JC | Published: April 14, 2011
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Light–broken, scattered– can’t warm

By JC | Published: April 13, 2011
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in stained glass fragments.

By JC | Published: April 12, 2011
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Find a heart sanctuary

By JC | Published: April 11, 2011
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Ask no such questions.

By JC | Published: April 10, 2011
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To answer, dissect a heart.

By JC | Published: April 9, 2011
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A lover’s, mother’s or child’s?

By JC | Published: April 8, 2011
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Which death is harsher?

By JC | Published: April 7, 2011
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Voracious grief consumes worlds.

By JC | Published: April 6, 2011
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Conversations fail.

By JC | Published: April 5, 2011
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the wave to steal their future.

By JC | Published: April 4, 2011
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She forgets the children, sends

By JC | Published: April 3, 2011
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throws off her mantle.

By JC | Published: April 2, 2011
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she dresses herself in flames,

By JC | Published: April 1, 2011
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A victim no more,

By JC | Published: March 31, 2011
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seeks vengeance, retribution.

By JC | Published: March 30, 2011
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JC’s book launched on May 1 at the Ottawa International Writers Festival

By JC | Published: March 30, 2011
The Ottawa International Writers Festival Spring Edition www.writersfestival.org featured the launch of  “What My Grandma Means to Say”  at Collected Works Bookstore on Sunday, May 1.  JC spoke of how she came first to write the one-act play about eleven year-old Jake and his grandmother who is living with Alzheimer’s disease and then of the […]
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Earth, deflowered, denuded

By JC | Published: March 29, 2011
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To yield is weakness.

By JC | Published: March 28, 2011
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