isn’t going anywhere today but I have enjoyed the trips we’ve taken, stopping at stations to exchange one soul for another, like the old guy clutching a Chihuahua stepping off for the woman wearing two blue masks. I have loved the places we’ve forgotten, like a cabin my father rented with the hole in the […]
Bill Garvey
Bill Garvey lives in Nova Scotia and Toronto. His collection of poetry, The basement on Biella, was published in 2023 by DarkWinter Press. His work has been nominated for The Griffin Poetry Prize and Best of the Net and has been published in journals throughout Canada and the US.
The water at Camp Lejeune
Was poisoned with benzene, vinyl chloride, diesel fuel and a bunch of stuff I can’t pronounce which took twenty-five years to reduce my father to bed sores. I drove him to Boston for chemotherapy when I was 22 and he was 47. We stopped at a rest area going home so he could lean out […]