I like crows. Almost every morning several crows call impatiently for the grub we’ve been feeding them since last winter.
They circle above the patio. They perch on the telephone pole, watching, waiting for us to go back indoors. I like crows, but I don’t like eating crow.
However, I am glad to “eat crow” on this day.
Several posts back, I lamented that the two Coles bookstores in Sault Ste Marie weren’t carrying my books. I believe I expanded the complaint to say that the stores had no poetry section and carried little in the way of poetry. Well, things have changed. Both stores now have clearly marked shelves of poetry with some good stuff on them, new and old. And, yes, they’ve got Fancy Clapping (http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Fancy-Clapping-Mark-D-Dunn/9781896350486-item.html?ikwid=fancy+clapping&ikwsec=Home), several copies in fact. So, I take it back, whatever it was I said. They’re even carrying a new book by Gary Geddes that I might well spring for.
So, cheers to you Coles Books in Sault Ste Marie for opening the door to poetry. Thank you.
Now we’ve got to make it worth the effort and buy those books.
