2/12 ESSAYS OF 2026 PUBLISHED... more coming Mar. 2026.
"in response to RECREATING COMMUNITY TOGETHER" - an honest response to a call for conversation on the exclusion of Black and Indigenous artists in rural Saskatchewan. https://medium.com/@jada.morin/dear-sk-arts-in-response-to-recreating-community-together-fce5b5ba2e9d
"exiled from education" - a postcolonial analysis of education after experiencing job-loss for the first time.
found poetry collection: "subliminal mindset" 2025, soon to be scanned into a pdf.
"it's always so sad to see" 2022 Poem published with Poetry Downtown.
"August 4th, 2022 6:32 am
how easily my life can be packed in bags
for the next location for me to be only to always feel like I don't belong
maybe if I move with the buffalo
who move across the prairies always headed somewhere new...
I wouldn't need to settle in a place long enough for the burden to kick in
because somehow I'm always the one
who isn't permanent...
or long lasting..."
"Process of Change" published under St. Thomas Moore in media res, 2022,
"Metamorphosis" 2.1 issue. pg. 9.
"The child who I was
and sometimes still am
naive and too trusting,
searching for validation in others who only think for themselves and their own benefit.
The intertwining of two souls that are not a match.
One is satisfied, the other is not.
only when the other's eyes are shut pleasure stirs within for anyone, or anything that was not Him.
OUR FRENZIED HEART CRAVES IN UTTER YEARNING!
Weep, weep,
lonely on the floor, wondering
WHY,
WHY,
WHY?
is nothing worthy for Him?
Sorrow drips into the carpet of the cheap apartment; cliffs nowhere in sight, but the University Bridge taunts me, you, and all.
Drown the seed of happiness that doesn't rely on others, because once you detach, you realize, after years of denial and doubt.
We are all Sappho."
revised March 11, 2026.
JLM