đ đ đ It’s Canada Day, 7/1, and this year’s appointments to the Order of Canada, announced yesterday, include philosopher, poet, musician, and political essayist Jan Zwicky.
The densest truths are home.
Liszt, Paganini, all the brilliant unreal
postures of intensityânothing like
the dishes in the rack, heads raised
for the clear hot rinse, children
having their hair washed in the bath.
— from âPractising Bachâ in Zwicky’s Forge, 2011