Steve McOrmond

A Stump in November

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Late November

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Sun Coming Up

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At the Graveyard Now they don't need a thing from us, However small: not even a cup of water Scooped from the fountain; not even a slight Adjustment of leg or shoulder To ease a cramp, or an offer to read them A poem or two they used to like. And now they have nothing to offer us, Poor wanderers without luggage, Without maps or pockets. No blessings, no answers to any questions We can think of asking, no words of advice Besides the words that we choose to lend them. Nothing to give us now or receive, and yet Here we are with our bright bouquets As if to say we still remember the light Lost when they left us, and the light They bestowed on us that we can't repay.

Carl Dennis

Morning of the Contrails

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City before dawn

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MORAL NARCISSISM fossil, cloud... it’s okay to like your little life. I have proof.

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)

here’s one by the brilliant @bartonsmock.bsky.social~

"Night Figures" from The Good News about Armageddon (2010), by Steve McOrmond

"Night Figures" from The Good News about Armageddon.

Cornered (Street Abstract)

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On the Night of the First Snow, Thinking about Tennessee It's dark now, the horses have had their half-apple, mist and rain, Horses down in the meadow, just a few degrees above snow. I stand in front of the propane stove, warming my legs. If the door were open, I'd listen to creek water And think I heard voices from long ago, distinct, and calling me home. The past becomes such a mirror--we're in it, and then we're not.

Charles Wright

2025 #highlight

The sweetness of these two, Brian Dedora and Donald Irving, donating their extensive bpNichol collection to the TMU Library. #remarkable #gift #legacy #bpNichol #briandedora #donaldirving

library.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/08...

Autumn in Toronto

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Please join us to celebrate the launch of Best Canadian Poetry 2026 on Wed, Nov 19 at Queen Books, 914 Queen St. East at 6:30 PM.

Please join us to celebrate the launch of Best Canadian Poetry 2026 on Wed, Nov 19 at Queen Books, 914 Queen St. East at 6:30 PM.

You'll hear readings from Ronna Bloom, Puneet Dutt, Susan Glickman, Emily Kedar, Richard Greene, Khashayar 'Kess' Mohammadi, AF Moritz, John Reibetanz, and myself.

November Rain

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Autumn in Toronto

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Autumn in Toronto

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Autumn in Toronto

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Autumn Colours, Toronto

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Fall on Film

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this weekend! above/ground press in toronto at the tifa small press fair + meet the presses' indie lit market, In case you are around, I'll be (along with a mound of above/ground press titles + my new poetry title, the book of sentences ) participati...

this weekend! above/ground press in toronto at the tifa small press fair + @meetthepresses.bsky.social indie lit market,
new chapbooks by Chernoff, La Rocque, Nećakov, Siklosi, Saklikar, Heroux + a secret preview of a collaborative title by Fagan/Comay,
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/this...

Hardwick House, Bury St. Edmunds, UK, wrought iron, sunlight and mist, scattered leaves on pathway, atmospheric

Edwin Smith

Hardwick Park
entrance gate

Thank you to everyone who came out to the poetry reading on Saturday at Little Wren Books in London. What a treat to hear @snullr.bsky.social and Jeremy Luke Hill read from their Baseline Press chapbooks and talk about their work.

Join us this Saturday, October 25 at 4:15 pm at the lovely Little Wren Books in London, ON for a celebration of poetry and Baseline Press. I'll be reading for the first time from my new chapbook "Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City." Hope to see you there!

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Leaves

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Turkey Point, Lake Erie

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Sand, Long Point Beach, Lake Erie

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Sand, Long Point Beach, Lake Erie

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Lethargy It smiles to see me Still in my bathrobe. It sits in my lap And will not let me rise. Now it is kissing my eyes. Arms enfold me, arms Pale with a thick down. It seems I am falling asleep To the sound of a story Being read me. This is the story. Weeks have passed Since first I lifted my hand To set it down.

Donald Justice, on this rainy day in autumn

A Birdbath in Autumn

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October in Toronto

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