None This Tide / Nor Any Tide

November 2022

My Boy Jack, by Rudyard Kipling

“Have you news of my boy Jack?”
Not this tide.
“When d’you think that he’ll come back?”
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide …

Top photo: Newfoundland National War Memorial; above: sculptor Basil Grotto with caribou memorial statue

Matthew Rooney and Seagulls

Can you tell us a little about yourself?   Sure. I am a poet, short story author, and occasionally a visual artist. Most of my life I’ve lived in Halifax,…