Mythos & Marginalia

life notes; flaws and all


a daily breath

  • the conversation

    Morning sky 
    opens to opportunity.
    Try to discover what 
    can’t be articulated. If
    there is a conversation 
    you’ve been avoiding, 
    that’s the conversation 
    you need to have.

  • cloud songs

        We don’t see changes
    until they have changed.
    Explanations, or excuses,
          slowly come with age.
    You can’t go back,
    it will not feel the same.
      There is no resolution.
      There is no blame.

  • challenged by memory

    What do you remember 
    about how it used to be?

    Aren’t we often 
    challenged by memory?

    Yesterday is not 
    what it once was?

  • I say their names
    because I have a daughter.
    I say their names
    because I am human.
    I say their names
    because I remember.

    Anne-Marie Edward
    Barbara Daigneault
    Anne-Marie Lemay
    Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
    Annie St-Arneault
    Geneviève Bergeron
    Maryse Leclair
    Hélène Colgan
    Nathalie Croteau
    Sonia Pelletier
    Annie Turcotte
    Maud Haviernick
    Maryse Laganière 
    Michèle Richard

    December 6, 1989.
    École Polytechnique. 
    The Montreal Massacre.

  • haiku 4 you

    say it

    soon

    say what you mean
    mean what you say

    © 2020 j.g. lewis