you live, gramma
you live, gramma in my dreams & memories where you walk with the sureness of age & hold a promise earth & body are one you are a silvery spirit my furious phantom in your loving palms cactus flowers bloom in your eyes stories never told & your laughter the full life of an ordinary woman (in earth or heaven is there anything more extraordinary) always i hold you in my heart swirling swirling & i embrace the breeze from your full skirt of magic sorrow & blue iris
Poems recorded in the carton but not printed here Known only from a folder tab At the end of the carton, fifty-eight folders were photographed closed, as tabs only, and never opened. Several are plainly poems, and their titles are the only record of them in these photographs: Crip Crone Dreams in Rainbow Circus, Desert Verbena at Sunset, The Door, A Dream of Flight (a second copy), Dreamstate, Dude, Dylan Concert Collage, Eight Years/Thirteen Years, Fat Women, Fever Blister, First Kiss (a second copy), Gimp Hands (a second copy), Hilcani, The Capable Womon, and others. See IMG_9657–9716. Present but not transcribed “Brown Bird” survives as a tear sheet from POETALK, May 1992 (IMG_9619–9620), read here only closely enough to establish the publication. “A Night Alone” was published with “all that sits between” and “Thewayshetellshim” as “Three Poems” in The Disability Rag, September/October 1992 (IMG_9522), and is not otherwise in the carton. “American Wedding” and “At the Wedding” (IMG_9545–9548) exist only as drafts so heavily overwritten in pencil that no reliable reading could be taken at the resolution used here. Deliberately excluded Sections 2 and 3 of Emerging (IMG_8441–8442) are marked on the page as Patty Overland's work and are not Wade's. The Emily Dickinson quatrain quoted in Finding Words (IMG_8474) is Dickinson's. “Dreams” (IMG_8435–8437), despite its title, is a prose memoir, as are “Evening”, “Independent Living” and “The Friend”.