Mytown.ca

[vaneramos]

Wyndham Street: waiting for the bus


Last fall poetbear told me his friend Norla was working in Guelph. Recently another mutual friend connected us. She is a writer and has joined the chorus.

Yesterday we met to talk about the Guelph-based website, mytown.ca, where Norla is an editor. Natalie, another chorister, joined us for a while. We told stories about wildlife we had rescued.

Mytown.ca is an evolving community of writers. Norla invited me to contribute. Overnight we set up pages of my poetry in three separate journals. Click the "library" links to view each list:

• Charlotte's Other Web (erotica): five poems
• Outsiders (general): six poems
• As Best We Can (anthology for global peace and justice): two poems

On the way home, a nanny, little more than a child herself, boarded the bus with four preschool children. The youngest, a toddler, turned to a screaming hydra in her arms, but she held him, speaking patiently. Another young woman offered a grape sucker out of her purse.

Facing the aisle sat a little woman with long, tired hair pushed through the back of a ballcap. She had the taut look of an addict. She held her hand in front of her eyes. Tears dripped from her chin.

Comments

[e-musings.livejournal.com]

I *love* pictures like that!!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Me too. It takes guts and cleverness to shoot them, more than I usually have.

[e-musings.livejournal.com]

I really like the lady at the far right--her knee highs are perfect! I have a picture somewhere in my collection of some ladies sitting on a bench in front of a store....I wish I could find it.

[ubermunkey.livejournal.com]

great image but even better is the bus picture you paint with your pen

be
well

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I like how words can show things the camera can't. And I can tell these stories anonymously without really invading anyone's privacy.

[teddyb.livejournal.com]

I second both of the above. Very vivid imagery in both the photo and your writing.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Bob.

[ubermunkey.livejournal.com]

sheesh I meant to tell you that the new icon is great also.

be well

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that is one from the last photo shoot with Bill.

[dennisatl.livejournal.com]

I love the way there is sculpture to be seen all around us
And I am also so shy about invading such scenes to take a photo
thank you for being able to take this without breaking it
and I love "screaming hydra"! what a great phrase

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I have a hard time taking photos like that, although the scene I photographed is much more than the one I described in words. Words can tell the story while preserving anonymity and privacy.