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.
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M.D. Dunn said…
Beautiful photo. Most leaves are gone up this way.
3:19 PM
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?
9:30 AM
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.
6:36 PM
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