#caroline k.

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like tides

                                      and in his dance   Worlds expire like tides   *

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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   †

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*   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)

†   Caroline K, "The Happening World" (1987)   /   listen here