Outside the courthouse in the early morning, a young lawyer with cropped hair and robes fluttering in the breeze paces along the yellow line of the smoking area, muttering to himself, a coffee in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
Gatineau, QC, April 2025
A single men’s dress shoe. Brown.
Resting in a patch of grass beneath a streetlamp.
No foot in sight.
Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, QC, April 2025
A clatter behind me. A man in a red toque rides a ten-speed, pulling a shopping cart crammed with bags, suitcases – a hockey stick. He looks straight ahead as he coasts down the street.
Gatineau, QC, April 2025
breath
fogging the windowpane
a question lingers
for king and country
half price beers
at the legion
Ian Kenney 