I live inside a big, transparent sphere with a Blue Ocean for a sky and clouds made of Love…And it envelopes everything. When I stare up, I feel as if can see its spherical shape – like I can see the bend coming in the distance; that place where the horizon breaks and begins to … Continue reading
In a few days she’ll be back, wrapped inside a thunderstorm and with wings made of fire. She’ll visit me in that garden where we first met — under the tree with no name and leaves heavy with iron. And together we’ll drink the venom that bleeds from the tree, and which turns Eden into … Continue reading
Nothing happens on a calm day like today.//Nothing can happen, when the day is just dead.//What’s the impulse to be felt, if today’s end has started again? It’s so quiet out here, inside today’s dream.//So quiet, indeed, I hear my thoughts scream. And I can hear myself going insane.//Paralyzed in a way I’ve never felt.//There’s … Continue reading
I thought I was free from it. Or, at the very least, I thought I fought hard against succumbing to it. But I’m not so sure about that anymore. It’s like acid burning through armor. It’s like horse blinders that keep me infatuated with one thing: my own fortune. And what a miserable fortune it … Continue reading
Originally Published March 18, 2014. Santiago Escobar is driving back from St. Catharines to Toronto. Riding shotgun is his friend and union colleague, Pablo Godoy, the national representative for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). They’re returning home from Brock University, where they spent the last 10 hours talking with 300 students … Continue reading
The first paragraph of Terry Glavin’s op-ed piece in the Ottawa Citizen titled ‘Venezuela and the Canadian Left,’ reads something like the opening scene in the 1998 film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which takes off like a rocket, as a drug-addled journalist and his attorney zoom through the desert in a convertible towards … Continue reading
21st Century (R)Evolution 