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Born a twin in 1953, son of a German mother and a Belgian father, Gerard grew up far from Würzburg and from Liège, among the forests and lakes of the coastal pulp and paper town of Powell River, B.C. A lover of endives and sauerkraut, lebkuchen and rice pie, he has a BSC. and a BA. from University of British Columbia, and a Master's of English Literature from the University of Washington, and over the years he has worked as a broke hustler, green chain hand, postal employee, commercial fisherman, apartment manager, and tutor. The idea for Fathers: A Literary Anthology came to him several years ago, and though he tried to resist, it would not go away. He was, after all, the father of two teenage children, and some of his thoughts were forged ...more

Blog #216: Sunken Words and “Ozymandias”

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“Ozymandias”


I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of sone

Stand in the desert…Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

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