Autumn Envelope Insomnia




WOODS WALK, BURLINGTON, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 16, 2010



I could not sleep. I wrote things down on the back of a bedside envelope.

Stand beside the roadside.

Check the fire alarms.

Don’t forget drinking water.

Rise in a translucent curl, a mirror evaporating like night into dawn or sleep into smoke.

Dry cleaning.

Doctor’s appointment.

Autumn.

Comments

M.D. Dunn said…
Beautiful photo. Most leaves are gone up this way.
gary barwin said…
Thanks. Here it depends where you look. Hamilton has many almost micro-climates because, I think, of the escarpment and the lake. I wonder what it would feel like if the trees were always this way and it were permanently autumn?
M.D. Dunn said…
One of my unpublishable novels is set in a world of perpetual autumn. To me, it would feel like a constant now, an unending "adulthood." I likes the autumnal stuff.
Have great readings.