thinking narrative (on the Vancouver Island ferry)

This is a hybrid poem, a grafting together of narrative research, qualitative methods, and poetic representation. “The offspring of genetically dissimilar parents” (www.answers.com), the poem attempts to exist in the rarely seen intergeneric worlds of poetry and inquiry. It is inspired in part by the poetic inquiry found in Qualitative Inquiry by poets and researchers such as Corinne Glesne, Ivan Brady, Donald Blumenfeld-Jones, Miles Richardson, Mary Weems, and others. This poem is dedicated to Dr. Antoinette Oberg, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, a wondrous mentor who retired in December 2005.