Aye to that, Rob.
On 28 October 2010 22:29, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Deeply saddening. She'll be enormously missed.
>
> Robin
>
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> From: "Randolph Healy" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:29 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Candice Ward R.I.P.
>
>
> I write this with tears in my eyes.
>>
>> Candice's cousin has just emailed me to let me know that Candice died
>> suddenly this week. I don't know the circumstances.
>>
>> Who can forget the verve she brought to her _Snaps_ on PoetryEtc? A
>> wonderful person and writer.
>>
>> I append one of her many magnificent poems.
>>
>> Randolph
>>
>> *The Moon Sees the One*
>>
>> /I see the Moon//
>> /And the Moon sees me/
>> /And the Moon sees the one/
>> /I long to see//
>> (children's song)
>>
>> /You'll find your ignorance is blissful//
>> /Every goddamn time//
>> (Tom Waits,"Heart Attack & Vine")
>>
>>
>> the moon sees to night at the end
>> of its rope, beached to blot
>> by remote the one way back
>>
>> a baker's blank so white, so late
>> as the face on magritte's mother
>> undercover still a looker (me
>>
>> with my aptitude for pathos-
>> of-distance learning): listen,
>> duckling, it goes for the throat
>>
>> thrush or strep, whistle-stopped
>> as the little red train makes
>> tracks, makes history of us
>>
>> putting a saint in it and pulling
>> away, while overhead the night
>> gowns for cover (her face)
>>
>> all wet but none the wiser than
>> what is /is/ left of memory: your
>> darrow songs, my debs rebellion
>>
>> for in your father's house
>> of cheats are too many
>> dimensions---and the moon
>>
>> looks on, indifferent to
>> its own mystery, to
>> the children gazing back
>>
>> from an orphan age
>> already history
>>
>
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