Perfect Day has six parts, reflecting a spiritual journey whose presentation shifts in tone from lightly satirical to darkly lyrical, as if the one led logically to the other. There are poems about personal relationships and social and political issues in every section, with implicit religious themes, always presented obliquely. Settings range from Toronto to BC to Nova Scotia to Peru. Day One wanders between whimsy and flippancy, though already sometimes with a shadow (blast) of sadness. Day Two remains playful but in an intellectual and moral key. The poems of Day Three are directly political and increasingly desperate. Part Four wavers then between melancholic reconciliation and the possibility of something else. Day Five starts to imagine another way of being in the world. And Day Six, initially addressing death, articulates the dawn of a more perfect day.

Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada; post-secondarily educated around the USA (Portland, Oregon; Valparaiso, Indiana; Columbus, Ohio; Claremont, California); re-educated in Lima, Peru; academically appointed (without anointment) at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto; metaphysically translated to Guysborough, Nova Scotia, including small-motor repair, white-knuckled sailing and the resurrection of dead real-estate (still awaiting eschatological consummation); currently suspended in the middle of a phased retirement; grandfather utterly without parental backbone.

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