Author Archives: JC

the hard one she learned from Earth:

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She takes the lesson —

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she smoothes her shifts of snow.

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His designs on her, fruitless,

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Scowls her cold ‘welcome.’

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She ignores the willing sun.

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No one has told Spring.

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Kudos or oblivion?

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Doesn’t know for what he hopes:

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JC and “What My Grandma Means to Say” on YouTube

“What My Grandma Means to Say” explores how relationships change when someone in the family is living with Alzheimer’s disease. Videographer Kate Morgan and sound guru Hollis Morgan of Constant Sound Studio caught JC’s reading at a branch of the Ottawa Public Library on video, which is now posted on YouTube. Get a taste of […]
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impatient, pulsing.

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as waves wait below March ice —

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He waits for judgment

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Breathless, he hands his work in.

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Their weight, heavy on his chest.

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Too late to change them.

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a loser’s pitiable picks.

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Each found object, drowned:

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“What My Grandma Means to Say:” Get your copy through this website

JC Sulzenko’s 48-page storybook adaptation of her one-act play about  11 year-old Jake and his grandma, who is living with Alzheimer’s disease, is now available from this website.  Just send your request to info@jcsulzenko.com, and you will receive instructions on how and where to place your order. (The book is still available in hard copy […]
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Afloat, it steals the surface.

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JC: the sole poet on CD “Dancing Kites,” launched March 20

At the happy launch of the CD on March 20, JC was thrilled to read “Seasoning” and  “Hummingbird Rest”  from Fat poems Tall poems Long poems Small. “Hummingbird Rest,” with original background music by Claude Naubert, is the only poem on  “Dancing Kites,” which features performances by 17 other Canadian artists. The Ottawa group, Grammas […]
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shrieks as it streaks down the glass.

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precise cut, force fed —

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a slab of thick styrofoam —

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Now he adds `ice,`snow`;

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a box of condoms, still wrapped.

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a rusted padlock, open,

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an empty pill box,

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join a cat’s eye, rubik’s cube,

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A dime, a penknife

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