Published on Mondays, with columns by Artists and Writers. Published since 2002, an Ocean and Pounds publication
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CHEEZ
by Fiona Smyth
OCEANPOUNDS online exhibition
"Crystal Mountains" Drawings by FIONA SMYTH
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FACING EAST FACING WEST
Unique Prints by Kai Chan
SOME STONES
Photographs by Elaine Ling
November 15-29, 2020
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Caffeine Reveries
by Shelley Savor
Heading Toward Sunny Skies
Poem a Week
by Gary Michael Dault
America From Scratches
I remember
when Malgorzata,
who is Polish
and was savouring
the new English
gradually settling
over her native tongue,
used to say things like
"starting from scratches"
when she meant
"starting from scratch"
I woke up this morning
thinking of Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris
and the country
they'll have to remake
and thinking how
they'll have to start
from scratches
it will be like
picking up a feral cat
you want to help
there'll be scratches
for the creature,
fed Trumpery for four years,
is now enraged
with its own engorgement
and needs calming
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Greenwood
by Kai Chan
ProTesT
by Cem Turgay
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Some Trees
by Malgorzata Wolak Dault
Number 47
" (I recall how) Joe Bousquet expressed the intimate space
of a tree: 'Space is nowhere. Space is inside it like honey in a
hive'."
--Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), p. 202.
Travelling Palm Snapshots
by Tamara Chatterjee
Madagascar (March, 2010) – As we gathered ourselves, still vibrating from the ensemble of characters we had just met. Whilst back on the our hired barge; our final views remain the lingering troupe who welcomed us the previous day. Blissed out in fantasy; we prepared ourselves onwards floating eastwards down the Tsiribihina for promised viewings of endemic flora and fauna including the enigmatic lemure.
From the Notebooks (2010-2020)
by Gary Michael Dault
From the Notebooks, 2010-2020.
Number 58: Autumn Bell (October 31, 2020)
The Photograph
coordinated by Kamelia Pezeshki
Jamaican migrant farm workers picking apples, Thornbury, Ontario, 1986
Photo©Vincenzo Pietropaolo From Harvest Pilgrims: Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in Canada. (BTL, 2009)
The Raw and the Cooked, MYTHOLOGIQUES
(A column on the culture of eating and cooking)
Roots of Coriander & Spinach
by Kai Chan
The spinach crown is the lower part of the spinach plant, with the red root. In “Zen Vegetarian Cooking”, Soli Yoneda and Koli Hoshini,( two Japanese Abbess, at Sanko-In Temple ), described the favour and the nutrients of spinach crowns. Their recipe to stir-fry spinach crowns with ginger, as well as to braise the crowns with sake is simple but delicious. A friend of mine described the spinach root’s favour as sweet with a slight taste of the soil, which is exactly why I like it.
Spinach is most often used in salads, quiche, soups and other combinations. However, I like a simple spinach stir-fry which preserves the true taste of this vegetable. Unless one grows one’s own spinach, it is difficult to find the roots still attached to the spinach offered in supermarkets. However, sometimes they do appear. Spinach requires three or four rinsings to get rid of the sand and mud. While washing, I usually cut the upper part of the plant with scissors, then split the crown into three or four parts which makes it easier to get rid of the dirt. To cook them, I put some vegetable oil in a hot pot on the stove, with some chopped garlic and a bit of salt and put the washed and cut-up spinach crowns and leaves into the pot, put the lid on and cook for about two minutes; the water retained from the washing will steam and cook the vegetable. Then I flip the spinach over in the pot, cover it up again for another two minutes or so. To finish the cooking I stir the vegetable thoroughly and the dish is ready. With the dark green leaves, jade like petioles and the red roots, it is very satisfying for both the eyes and the taste buds.
The Raw and the Cooked, MYTHOLOGIQUES is a new column on the culture of eating and cooking, with contributions by various authors. The column name is borrowed from the title of a book by Claude Levi-Strauss. It is spontaneous, a little amusing but serious at the same time.
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