For International Women's Day — For my partner and the many women who continue to influence my life.

Shower My Foe with Blessings

For all who care and serve with spaciousness of heart

All is Love, Love is All. Sunrise — listening to these lines, the ethereal voices, the honeyed harmony, the music passing through me like filaments of dawn — I'm transfigured, I’m candle-dipped into t...

For my partner of many Valentines

What we have is marvellous but it lacks a certain resilience. I know this because the other day I was sitting in a café sipping coffee and the light sifting through the windows had this powdery softne...

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -MLK

For my neighbours in America

And now, standing at the headwaters of the New Year, with too much hope and too much worry, like middle managers returning from a monastic retreat, we gather to genuflect our benediction over the mont...

Isn’t it obvious, by now, that contentment is bad for commerce, and that peace is bad for business?

Still, we cling in this dark to any whisper of light.

Blue-collar poems and goodwill bulletins at the confluence of politics, art, and spirituality, somewhere between suffering the world, honouring the earth, and wooing the divine.

For the genuine pastors I've been lucky to know (and for my brother on his birthday).

It was the year my heart was just beginning to store plaque, packing it away in the load-bearing wall running through the middle of my house; and I was spending too much time in my attic, thinking abo...

A personal reflection in the wake of Trans Awareness Week, and Alberta's anti-trans legislation

I’ve eyed the inland surge of a heavy surf, and shuddered at the thought of its undertow. I’ve shivered in a late-summer prairie scene:bronze waves

Protect the First Amendment!

RADIANT WOUND is both an anthem and a lament, a poetic exploration of life between cultures, languages, and the landscapes of Côte d'Ivoire. In this debut collection, Cara Waterfall captures the vibrant textures and deep dissonances of life abroad after the Second Ivorian Civil War, navigating the c