Format: Chapbook
Size: 5 ½ x 8 ½
Pages: 32
A Quiet Affair - Vancouver '63
by Robert Hogg
Robert Hogg is a retired English professor and organic farmer who now devotes his life to writing in Eastern Ontario, Canada. He has published 5 books of poetry, three chapbooks, and his work has appeared in over 70 periodicals, most recently Pamenar Online; Empty Mirror; The Café Review; Dispatches; Arc; Some; BlazeVox Online Journal; The Typescript; Caesura; Ottawater 16; Sulfur Surrealist Jungle among others. Two chapbooks, Ranch Days—for Ed Dorn, and Ranch Days—the McIntosh appeared in 2019. Forthcoming book length titles include: Lamentations; The Cariboo Poems; Postcards, from America; Amber Alert; Not to Call it Chaos – The Vancouver Poems.
A Quiet Affair – Vancouver ’63
It’s happened so
fast a call from
the MSA
Hospital
we can take
you now a
full mouth
extraction new
set of teeth
and my girl
Carole
takes the next
bus to
Abbotsford
two weeks
recuperate
with family
tiny Melody
in tow
Gone and somehow
a relief our dark
old one-room
Comox St
apartment
wood paneled
walls a one
time handsome
West End
house now
closing in