The Convenience of Kings: A travel piece
Above: 7-Eleven on Bowen Rd., Nanaimo via waymarking.com By contributor Philip Gordon When given the opportunity to escape the monotonous hell-hole that is small-town Nanaimo avail myself of the sights and sounds of a distant land, I was ecstatic. Visions of a Pacific Ocean sunset and sakura blossoms danced behind my eyes—or maybe the shores … Continued
you looked up when you finished reading this because i’m an asshole
by philip gordon i’m continually baffled in a mostly passive way by the way in which ‘normal’ people have conversations. two guys sitting next to me in starbucks are talking and guy one (big ears, black leather jacket, blue shirt, scruffy black facial hair, high-ish voice) has been talking for like five minutes about … Continued
Emotional Savepoint: A review of Alec Robbins’s Lost Levels
By contributor philip gordon Several months after receiving it in the mail, my copy of Lost Levels is a bit torn up. The pages are falling apart and my cat threw up on the back cover and it dried there. On the inside of both covers there are screenshots of an iPhone conversation about old men in a sauna and … Continued
[poem in which the first line of the poem is also the title of the poem]
In Issue 10 of The Navigator we invited readers to submit their poems for a chance to see Shane Koyczan perform at The Port Theatre on March 25. This is one of two winning submissions. Click here to read the other. By philip gordon for breakfast this morning i had abstract cheesecake. don’t just skim over … Continued