The goodbyes

Sonatas. Rain. Musical animals. Angels. Braided intersections. Architraves. Office buildings in sunsets. Those puppet theatres you used to be able to make up from the backs of breakfast cereals packets. . . . Sexual encounters in modernized fairy-tales. Science Fiction and disguised nostalgia. Some portraits . . . Music, not painting, as paradigm. Large rhythmic units, not 'metrically exact lines', not iambics except as ancestral ghosts . . .