“If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.”

“I almost went to bedwithout rememberingthe four white violetsI put in the button-holeof your green sweaterand how i kissed you thenand you kissed meshy as though I’dnever been your lover”

“If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask.If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand.If you want a partner in life take my hand.I'm your man.”

“As the mist leaves no scarOn the dark green hillSo my body leaves no scarOn you and never will”

“In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!”

“You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep”

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”