John is a social worker working in the field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and psychology. He is the author of four books of poetry: March (2019), The Seasons of Us (2019), New Days (2020), and Fragments (2021). His work has appeared widely in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies internationally. John is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada with his wife and two children.
Your Eyes
Making sense
Of where we are
In the low tides
And the high
Where truth
Churns in the jags
Against the rocks
On the shore
Along the coast
Where we parked
That night
In the fading moonlight
To watch the pain
Of insignificance
Dance
Across your eyes
Too Much the Night
Wound up
In the poetic crises
Of long nights
And short days
Estranged from touch
And taste
Where breathing rescues
And finds its cadence
In the brokenness
Of our ways
A New Summer
In a new summer
Of brief passing
He saw her that day
By the pool
Young and awakened
In the sweetness
Of profound anticipation
When their love
Was instant
And fresh
With an openness
To everything
Stirring
Blind to far reaching
Tomorrows
And lost
In a singular landscape
Of dreams
Mining the morning sun
For a smile
