// Home

Tim Bowling

Tim Bowling is the author of nine poetry collections, three novels and two works of non-fiction. His most recent title is In The Suicide’s Library: A Book Lover’s Journey (Gaspereau Press 2010).

Stories from Tim Bowling

On the Rails
BY Tim Bowling
Thursday, December 1st, 2011

On October 4th, 1896, Joseph Frank Keaton entered the world in a clangorous railroad town called Piqua, Kansas. Sixty-eight autumns later, as the legendary silent screen comedian he had become, Buster Keaton crossed Canada on a mechanized railway handcart for the making of The Railrodder, a 1965 National Film Board production promoting the scenic splendour of our country. Less than a year later, the Great Stone Face, as he was nicknamed due to his stoic on-screen expression, was dead.

So Much Rain
BY Tim Bowling
Friday, May 27th, 2011

So much rain
even the spiderweb rusts.
The spider
in glistening oilskins
creaks the winch that pulls
in the dead fly. Something
far inside me follows.
But only the fly appears to pray.

The layer of dust on the floors
of the condemned houses of my childhood
the layer of dust on the top of my midlife library

between the footprints of the boy
and the fingerprints of the man –
the life that leaves no trace.