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like tides

 
                                    and in his dance
 
Worlds expire like tides     1

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misread it —
words expire like tides

don’t get out much,
outside
outside of
outside words
outside of words
 
the outside of words
inside of words
 
the besides of words
(A-sides of words)
 
upsides
downsides
 
ironsides of words
 
betide words

betide world
happening world     2

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1. Gwendolyn MacEwen, Black Alchemy, in A Breakfast for Barbarians (1966)
   can’t find online, discussed by Margaret Atwood in her essay MacEwen's Muse, in Atwood, Second Words : Selected Critical Prose 1960-1982 (1970; 2011) : 67-78 (71)
2. Caroline K, The Happening World (1987)   /   listen here
    

18 September 2016

tags:
Gwendolyn MacEwen; Caroline K.; adrift; drift; expirations; tides