Went to the poetry reading to listen to canadian poet & community bus driver Chris Pannel, bought his sensitive book ' Under Old Stars' from which I would recommend the poem Joe Read a few of my poems including
It was such a struggle to get him to say anything at all
Sweet and simple words
No more than to say
That he brought
All around him to tears
Simply by saying
How lucky he was to be in love
I cried then
And tears again yesterday
When I re-wrote the memory
What is it, why am I so soft
That a few words
Can turn me over
I ought once
To sob substantially
Flush out my ignominious frame
Before later in life
To go pleading
You see this is not a picture
Not a painting or a photograph
But a vessel, somewhere to place
The displaced teardrops