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Francois Lachance

@lachance.bsky.social

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World Citizen since forever. Scholar-at-large since 1996, interested in discourses of technology, sensoria, social reproduction, and poetry as cognitive device.

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Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · Nov 12

A Garden By The Sea: A Zine Inspired By The Words And Films Of Derek Jarman

BLACK LODGE PRESS

www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/prod...

Cover in blue and red of A Garden by the Sea: A Zine Inspired by the Words and Films of Derek Jarman

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Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 54m

a series of cereal sonics
from snap crackle pop
to Capitan Crunch

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - crunch

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Laughing Monkey @laughingmonkey0.bsky.social · 1d

goose
goose goose
goose goose
goose goose
goose
goose

#haiku

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Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 1d

vivid blue of monkshood
fated to be bleached
by rain

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - vivid

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations and happy circulation.

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 1d

Attend.
The skeletal trees —
Moonlight pouring through

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 1d

A niche within a niche:

Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, = explores the notion of structure as living organism

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 1d

"Routine is how I get work done. Routine is how I get anything done."

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 2d

my short piece on the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025), along with a few excerpts, is now online at The Woodlot; / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @the-wood-lot.bsky.social ;
the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/09/o...

On the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, October 2025) and an Except

by rob mclennan I don’t hold too much stock in ideas of the muse, instead seeking the attention of craft. The working class farm-lad in me, I suppose: writing as simultaneous muscle and study, a bl…

the-wood-lot.ca

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Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 28 - Free concert

Empire Étrange, arranged for 12-voice chorus, piano, violin, cello, and percussion, and conducted by Andrew Balfour the composer, tells the story of Métis leader Louis Riel...

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TD Encounters: Empire Étrange: The Death of Louis Riel - Soundstreams

October 28, 20257:30pmHugh’s Room (296 Broadview Ave, Toronto, ON M4M 2G7) The story of Métis leader Louis Riel is dramatic, even astounding. The tragedy and controversy surrounding his life sink... R...

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Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 2d

on the table
a straw basket sits
filled with apples

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - straw

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 3d

On the situation of capital "P" Poetry:

"I like to think of Poetry as being in everything, actually, I mean, it's about learning to listen and to pay attention to how we exist and interact with the world."

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 3d

high overhead
a chevron of wild geese
migrating south

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - geese

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Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 4d

on the dark path
ghost pipe
marvels

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - ghost

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 4d

Alerted to this gem via the Royal Ontario Museum ... "a playful and extraordinary visual journey into the little-known world of this tiny superhero of biodiversity"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1z...

Secrets of Nature’s Tiny Hero in 4K | The Extraordinary Caterpillar | TVO Original

YouTube video by TVO Docs

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Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 4d

Ursula K. Le Guin's intro to the 1976 edition of the Left Hand of Darkness. There is also her Conversations on Writing - a series of interviews with David Naimon.

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 5d

avoid a void

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - avoid

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 5d

Made it to Stratford to see the Lepage production of Macbeth. Wonderful stagecraft.

www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/Play...

Macbeth | 2016 Shakespeare

Surrender to a haunting story of ambition and its dark consequences, as a military hero and his wife conspire to seize the throne of Scotland.

www.stratfordfestival.ca

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Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 6d

two quilts
layered against
night chill

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - night chill

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 6d

"One of the reasons I gravitate toward the lyric, though, is its ability to express complex thoughts and emotions in the simplest of ways."

Reposted by Francois Lachance

Jenny Mattern @jengelmattern.bsky.social · 7d

sticky thoughts
I sprinkle more flour
on the dough

#DailyHaikuPrompt (flour) #haiku

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Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 7d

Sole Meunière
Dredged fish
Fried to crispness

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - flour

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 8d

yellow leaves
raked and staked
immutable gold

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - yellow leaves

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Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 9d

frost touched at the edges
days later
frost bitten to the core

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - frost

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 9d

Another person one would like to be

Is a 19th-century composer of
Masses for the Dead.
[...]
No call to concoct a plot
No need to write the words
No lack of occasion —
There are masses of dead.
[...]

D.J. Enright
Daughters of the Earth

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 10d

three grains of rice
at the bottom of the bowl

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - grain

Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 11d

Remembering to breathe:

I believe my role as a writer is to expose the secrets of unacknowledged truths. Other times, the voice is simply a quiet exaltation or exhalation.