Today would have been my mother's seventy-fourth birthday,

Here she is on the beach in Cobourg, Ontario with her mother, during the summer of 1956. Mum's youngest sibling, Bob, splashing about behind them.

Lake Ontario, Cobourg ; e:ratio 16

My poem, "Lake Ontario, Cobourg" (initially composed while Christine and I were in Cobourg for my reading at the 3rd annual Cobourg Poetry and Literary Arts Festival) is now online as part of e:ratio 16.