Winter 2025 - the loneliness of the long-distance racewalker …
The author with his arm-wrestling brothers Robin (at left) and Tom, in early February 1977 (photo by Gorm Larsen)

when’s your first class at the U, Tom?
hey, when you guys heading over
to the boxing club to work out with Bev –
I’ll try to meet you there later after classes
finish at Sheridan,
we can plan something for dinner
before heading back to the trailer …


Bio:

An audacious dream rose from the youthful self-belief of “why not me?” which ultimately led to a continuous journey on a road to self-discovery. Glenn Arthur Sweazey is a writer living in Ottawa, where he leads a group of local writers, “In the Company of Writers,” and teaches Conversational English for Newcomers. One past work includes a verse novel manuscript, The Lost Papers of Tom Thomson.

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