Friday, April 16, 2004

"For when the poet wakens from the dream the Presence is 'there more than ever, / as if she had miraculously / related herself to time here'" -- Albert Gelpi quoting and discussing H.D. in "Re-membering the Mother" in the Anthology Signets. The Prescence from the dream that stays after the dream has evaporated -- part of the dream but beyond the dream. The Harlem flapper was the Presence, she was the beginning of an alchemical transformative time. She ushered it in perhaps, if the alchemy-time was not part and parcel of the love devastation that preceded it...it was Her, pushing it through, ensuring that the work is not evaded.

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