Bench, Trinity Bellwoods Park

September 20, 2008

Seated safely back from the precipice he

blessed me with the universal sign of the

cross with the hush of his mother tongue

Seated safely back from the precipice he

cursed me with the universal sign of the

cross with the hush of his mother tongue

the cut was between the ear and the mouth

triaged with black electrical tape

reminded me of hockey sticks but

you couldn’t see the scars

Bench, New Mexico

September 7, 2008

“a bench painted this colour gazes out where no one would particularly care to look.”

-Roo Borson, Personal History