Yep thanks to Gillian, & to Candice for the tale from beyond the pale.
About the only one that ame back with me from beyond was also for the dead,
some years after bpNichol died he appeared in a return reading in a dream:
I got that down & it's part of the elegiac sequence for him in the SALT
book, Fragmenting Body etc.
There was the night when it gelt (when I woke up) as if I'd had a
night-long dream in which I wrote The Great Epic Novel, which I remember
reading as I wrote with great pleasure, but not a wrack was left behind...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
The formula for forgetting is different
From city to city, city to country: each
Has its own tradition of gazing.
Its indigenous wings to intercept and shadow
The critiques that ensue, late-breaking
Like the news, but never on the news.
Ann Lauterbach
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