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Reminiscence

A voice
Voices
One voice
A familiar voice
A familiar voice
A voice
A voice
A voice
A voice
Familiar music
A voice
A familiar voice
A familiar voice
Familiar music
Voices
Voices
Familiar music
Familiar music
Familiar music
Familiar music
Familiar music
Familiar voice
Familiar music
Familiar music
Sound of feet walking
Familiar voice
Voices
Music
Voices
Familiar sound
A voice
A voice
Voices
Voices
A voice
A voice
Music
A voice
Familiar voice
Familiar voices
Dog barking
Music
A voice
Familair voice
A voice
Familiar voice
Familiar voice
Familiar music
A voice
Voices
Voices
Voices
Voices
Voices
Voices
Familiar voice
Familiar voice
Familiar voice
Music
Familiar voice
Familiar voice
Familiar voice
Familiar music
Familiar music
Familiar music
Voices


(From a caption to a figure in Wilder Penfield and P. Perot's "The Brain's Record of Visual and Auditory Experience", as found on a page in Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.)



Adagio for 1984
for Aiko Suzuki

i

morpheus chants
lunar hum

stillness sleeps

temple of dawn
eastern image


ii

hokusai drifts
basho's eye

stream of glass
basho's eye

opaline oracle
basho's eye

mishima's spring
basho's eye


iii

sappho's haiku
minerva's echo


iv

vergil
vale of tempe

vergil
study for sanctuary

vergil
elysian fields

vergil
purely sound


v

mishima's stillness
sleeps spring stream
of glass study
for vale of tempe
for sanctuary


vi

sappho's haiku
echoes
minerva's image
fields
basho's eye
chants
opaline oracle
sleeps


vii

study stillness
study vergil
study dawn
study spring
study sappho's haiku


viii

eastern oracle

opaline image of
basho's glass eye

adagio for
lunar hum

haiku for
glass echo
ix

eye of sound
vale of vergil
stillness of lunar hum


x

sound drifts
spring sleeps
vergil chants


xi

glass stream
chants spring

morpheus
opaline
sleeps

echo of image
temple of tempe
hum of dawn fields


xii

echo lunar image
of eastern hum

eye hokusai
purely elysian

sanctuary of glass
adagio of spring

study stream
of sappho's drift


This poem employs, in original and altered forms, Aiko Suzuki's titles for paintings included in her exhibit at Merton Gallery, Toronto, in November of 1983. Her kind permission to make use of them as I have is gratefully acknowledged.



Royal George Schedule, June 24 - September 11
Shaw Festival, 1985

for Rod Campbell

Naughty

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Inca
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Mrs. Bach (O)
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Mrs. Bach (F)
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Inca
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Murder (SP)

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Danny
Grossman (O)
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Grossman
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Grossman (F)
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