J. Marshall Freeman

@jmarshallfreeman.bsky.social

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Novelist, poet, musician, queer aesthete, Toronto biker, older and only marginally wiser. jmarshallfreeman.com My new short story collection, "To Wrap Yourself in Light," is now available on Amazon.

A young couple in front of a waterfall. She wears a striped bikini top, a white sun hat, and espadrilles with a wide belt. She is pressed against the side of a man in shite shorts and white t-shirt. Both wear sunglasses and lean against a railing. In the background is a waterfall. A walking bridge is seen behind their heads. The picture is mildly sepia-toned.
Tomatoes sprouting in containers on the windowsill 
Identity card for Pascal, Max, issued in Quebec in 1931, containing pertinent biographical information and his picture in the upper left, a short Eraserhead haircut in black, his piercing eyes, and neat moustache. He is wearing a herringbone jacket, and a black tie. One collar of his white shirt has escaped containment.
A square image of a red poppy, shot straight on with green leaves blurred behind
A western honey bee drinks from a tansy. The yellow flowers take up the lower half of the photo, with blurred foliage in the upper.
Two women sit on the running board of an old car with their young daughters sitting between them. The driver sits, partly in shadow, at the wheel of the car. Everyone is dressed with some elegance.
Brockton Writers Series, lit reading even in Parkdale/West Quest W. Wednesday, July 8, 2026 — 6:30 p.m. at Glad Day Lit, located at 32 Lisgar St., Toronto.
In the lower left, the top of an apartment building in browns. Above, white clouds on a blue sky background. Superimposed over the whole, regular grey dots
I am centred in the reflection of the gallery window in the frame of a painting of a barn covered in birdhouses. The painting’s sky of blue and cloud is perfectly continued by the actual reflected sky behind me.
Orange paint on cracks in the sidewalk. Tension between straight and crooked cracks
A utility cover in a laneway with weeds growing around it like a garland. Someone has emptied while paint water that has turned the cover white and stained the asphalt.
The CN tower, part of the family portrait of background buildings rising above Chinatown in Toronto.
Clear red cardigan corgi standing over a toy, barking, demanding immediate play.
Me at around age 6 or 7 looking up at the camera with hooded eyes and an evil expression.
Poster for Poetry Open Mic, June 20, special Pride edition. Doors and open mic sign-up 4pm, show at 4:30. Featured Artist: Truth Is… 12 Alexander Street, Toronto
Overhead shot of a bag of choy sum with its green leaves and yellow flowers in a cardboard box at the veg mart
David Hockney and Joni Mitchell, hand in hand, elderly and bedecked in splendid colours at a gallery.
A pigeon sits, legs tucked beneath its body, on a concrete expanse, in the shadow, head overlapping a strip of sunshine.
A memorial candle burns on a blue and white plate, on a placemat with a patter of lemons.
A plastic container shot from overhead containing cherry tomatoes and hard boiled, shelled quail eggs, sitting on a glass table
My corgi looks back at me, shadowed and mysterious, on a sidewalk at night.
Movie poster of the movie, "The Post," with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks walking up a large concrete stairway.
Movie poster for the film "Chronicle," featuring a green-tinted and tilted Seattle skyline with three teen boys floating in the sky above the Space Needle.
A LEGO horse stands backlit apparently under the shade canopy of a bunch of lilac flowers in a green vase. The light from the window shines through the, and the vase is reflected in the table surface.
Corgi puppy holds a mini-frisbee emblazoned with the logo of the NDP party of Ontario in his mouth.
The stand of cherry trees in front of Robart’s Library at the University of Toronto in full bloom
shaded, backlit magnolia flowers, devoid of their usual pink glory, against an out-of-focus scrim of bare tree branches.
A man with headphones appears to groove minimally as he walks right to left down the sidewalk. Behind him is a partial construction sign on a concrete base, the only word remaining: “BEGINS”
Cardigan corgi, eyes hidden by a branch with small purple leaves.
Tron poster… Torn!
My dog walks away from a pile of hockey pucks.
grid showing Viktor Orbán, Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu with a big red X beside Orbán.
Man in a short-sleeved button down in blues and aquas, with a toque on his head, photographed off-centre against the earth red wall, with Japanese prints and a snake plant.
Clear red cardigan corgi with a curved stick he just found, looking delighted.
Four downspouts with ice pouring from them, like it flash froze.
flight tracker, showing plane over the arctic en route to Shanghai.