Reality Dissolves Imagination
I was first taken by how these two lines open a stanza some way through the first section of David McFadden's A New Romance.
Reality dissolves imagination,I was left with the impression of dream like water finding its place in the contour of a landscape. But the stanza continues and does so with a circularity that is constructed out of skilful use of conjunction and punctuation &mdash the line endings do not end the thought or the image.
dream seeks its own level
Reality dissolves imagination,What edges towards burn (fire) retreats with the repetition of the dissolution of the imagination. The newness of the new allows the dream to find its own level in a circle that goes on and on — dissolving the ground of imagination.
dream seeks its own level
in the grey dawn of awesome stillness
and the newness of a new romance
glowing with the skin's electrical fire
in the dissolution of the imagination.
And so for day 1105
22.12.2009
