Michael Winter

@GeoffBudden So true, Geoff!

I stand to be corrected but I believe this poem, one of the finest of the late 20th century, was first published, in a slightly different form, in NL’s own literary journal TickleAce, in 1993. Heaney had visited and read here in 1992/93. dai.mun.ca/PDFs/cns_perio… @michaelwinter34

As is true of many of my projects, including washing the dishes (so hard to clean that last cup and fork), I didn't make it to the finish line of 10,000 tweets. I'm over at bluesky and instagram as @michaelwinternet

are boxcars interchangeable, like propane tanks? do various companies borrow them from each other? I love, in Toronto, seeing the top of a train slowly chunking past the car wash on Dupont, and catching the faded cream script of a "Southern Pacific" on a dark brown boxcar

a man at the egg fridge opened the lid on a dozen and lifted every egg to check its bottom; I couldn't believe he hadn't seen a more experienced customer reduce this inspection by simply running one's fingers over the tops of the eggs, making sure they all moved in their cradle

@BeatlesEarth too much ELO

The Beatles’ final single, “Now and Then”, was released one year ago today. What are your thoughts on the song? 🤔⬇️x.com/Beatles4Privet…

tried to watch some conventional TV news about the US election and it was like following a drone flying through the newsroom studio, back to reading...

@RonSexsmith you broken-hearted keel man

Took my son to see a specialist, heard the doctor say "goodbye, my dear" to the patient before us. The rest of his intonation was central Canada. Before leaving I asked him about the "my dear". He paused, said he grew up in Ontario and then added, "My wife is from Cape Breton."

neighbour's got zevon's "werewolves of london" on repeat while sitting in his front yard with a sack of candy and a huge air-driven spooky light display, so I'm getting in the same spirit and putting on zevon's "jesus mentioned" #Halloween

sometimes it can take years, but when you finally hit upon the right voice, the right point-of-view, the right timeline and tense structure and pacing, then the story looks simple and easy, a novel that may have only taken you six weeks to write

I enjoyed having lunch with Charles

admiring the red mailbox that's in the post office that looks like an outdoor mailbox but is made of different materials and slightly a different size, like it's pretending to be a mailbox and thought it best to locate itself inside a post office to be more convinving

@_ryanruby_ James Alley Blues: "Sometimes I think that you're too sweet to die And another time I think, you oughta be buried alive"

@smokingsexxtion death is not the end

question for the people: what do you think is bob dylan’s worst song? covers don’t count.

in my dream of CBC radio I'd have one station where hyperbole is forbidden, the tone of the announcers is almost without a pulse, you could call it loperbole

I don't particularly like cold coffee, but my grandmother did, so occasionally I'll take a sip from a leftover cup just to imagine what it might have been like to have been her

noticed a public washroom and needed to use it but also thought it too bad they don't sell lettuce in the washroom as I needed lettuce too

I put on a new pair of dark-blue jeans and immediately my impulse is to open up a big jug of Javex and start splashing it around

am surprised to see how banal the Japanese cherry tree is and apparentlly ok with the Green Mountain sugar maple taking over the entire stage

expecting to read how polling has narrowed down the US election to the decisions of a single household with three eligible voters in Clearfield, Pennsylvania