Back in July, with the publication date of my new novel on the horizon, like a tiny, fragile boat on a big sea, I was already labouring on the next one when I found myself asking the novelist’s existential question: Why am I writing these?
The war in Ukraine was entering its seventeenth month. Canada’s economy and social fabric were showing signs of…
Daniel Goodwin
Daniel Goodwin is a poet and the author of several novels, including The Art of Being Lewis and, most recently, The Great Goldbergs.
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Daniel Goodwin
Like all of us in these disorienting days, I reach out across the distance to family and friends — mostly by email, sometimes by phone — to ask how they are doing, to let them know I am thinking of them. Those who like to read or write tend to ask me what I am reading or how my writing’s…
Lost
January–February 2015
Love, the love is always
there, but you always wonder
if the life is real as the flesh
of your wife’s soft shoulder
as she sleeps, or if you
have slipped on her slender
hip into a dream as it rises
like the dark green hill
in a scurvy-ridden sailor’s
nightmare, and you wake
up sweating because
you know you are…
When You Come
June 2014
When you come to greet me, shyly,
wearing nothing but your love for me
I will come to meet you halfway
like a falcon returning to your wrist.
And when you raise your arm,
trembling ever so slightly,
I will alight and let you pull
the velvet shroud over my eyes.
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