Rip.

Rip. Rip There's a rip in the fabric of reality, a tear that lets you know it's a canvas painting, mere picture, and where lies the original, "the real thing" the life is based on? There's a rip in the fabric of reality, a black gash you trip upon as you go about your life, like a rumpled carpet, a sudden trench in the back lawn, something to delay you when you're busy as usual, something to think about going back to, investigating later, when you've less to do. There's a rip in the fabric of reality. Something you'd really rather not know about, wish would go away, had never appeared in the first place, but persistent like the mouse in the eaves at night, the dream voice that speaks when you don't want to listen. Kate Braid's first book of poems, Covering Rough Ground(Polestar Polestar:see Polaris. , 1991), was largely a record of her 15 years as a carpenter.Since then, she has published two more poetry books (most recently,Inward in��ward?adj.1. Located inside; inner.2. Directed or moving toward the interior: an inward flow.3. to the Bones: Georgia O'Keeffe's Journey with EmilyCarr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer. She was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and moved to San Francisco in 1890 to study art after the death of her parents. , published by Polestar in 1998) and two biographies. She alsoedited a book of stories of the west coast fishery and, most recently,co-edited with Sandy Shreve, In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of FormPoetry (Raincoast, 2005). She is currently working on a poetrymanuscript that is an "auto" biography of the Canadian pianistGlenn Gould Glenn Herbert Gould[][] (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. . At present, she is reading A Beginner's Guide toConstructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art,and Science by Michael S. Schneider (HarperPerennial, 1995), R. MurraySchafer's The Tuning of the World (McClelland and Stewart, 1977)and, for balance, the biography of a tree--John Vaillant's TheGolden Spruce spruce,any plant of the genus Picea, evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Pinaceae (pine family) widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. The needles are angular in cross section, rather than flattened as in the related hemlocks and firs. : A True Story of Myth This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. , Madness and Greed (Knopf, 2005).