Cyril Dabydeen

Sandy Hill Community News / Le journal communautaire de la Côte-de-Sable

How do you practise your culture? A story

Cyril Dabydeen “How do you practise your culture?” he asks with unaffected ease. “My culture?” I reply, feigning surprise. A

Avant Garde —Love makes us solitary. Anon This beautiful girl in the park I glance at as she maunders

Starting with these selections from neighbourhood literati Word sonnets Seymour Mayne The word sonnet is a relatively

Poet Cyril Dabydeen honours the life of his cat and beloved neighbourhood personality in this poem Song for Zeus

A Life Of Crows Cyril Dabydeen Whoever we may have become watching the crows circling the house and

I sing you hard songs; you offer me a rose made of metal I have sculpted my own breath;

Flash fiction by Cyril Dabydeen “So where do you come from?” he asks. “Where?” I answer. Some nerve he has,

Cyril Dabydeen lives in Sandy Hill, teaches Creative Writing and is a former Poet Laureate of Ottawa. Mosaic Press in