Thanks again, Sheila.
Patrick, are you just being ironic in claiming my poem, ‘It will come’ did
not arrive?
I do mean that the dead return in dreams and often in surprising or at
least unannounced wakeful moments.
Bill
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 7:58 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> Hi Bill this did not arrive here -even looked in spam -am I right in
> someone died then returns in dreams?
>
> or is it not so tied down
>
> cheers P
>
> On 27/11/2018 22:59, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> > Very real, Bill. Vivid, true in its conceptual being. How departure
> feels.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 2:01 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> >
> >> Someone you care about
> >>
> >> will leave the table
> >>
> >> and not come back
> >>
> >>
> >> will become
> >>
> >> an absence
> >>
> >>
> >> riding in a different
> >>
> >> compartment
> >>
> >>
> >> Your head will not seem ample
> >>
> >> to carry their legacy
> >>
> >>
> >> All that proximity
> >>
> >> once so available
> >>
> >> now so fled
> >>
> >>
> >> The de-parted
> >>
> >> no longer attached
> >>
> >> don’t so much shift
> >>
> >> to some other plateau
> >>
> >>
> >> as dog our steps,
> >>
> >> blunder into our dreams
> >>
> >>
> >> You never know
> >>
> >> as you turn a corner
> >>
> >> of thought
> >>
> >>
> >> when they might approach
> >>
> >>
> >> bw
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