Like every other love letter since the dawn of etc it is not at all important but I think you should know
that I do not type well and in fact for example only today I noticed a once-important page now incorrectly
bears the title List of Famous People Who Owed Chow Dogs and it is not crucial but perhaps you would like
to learn that Freud’s favourite chow ate one of its own puppies and Michael Field—florid poet, quantum
aunt—held a wake for theirs on a dais with a garland made of iris-crowns while photographs of Georgia
O’Keefe’s pair show them scuffling and staring at pebbles through a studio window o keefe o keefe the sound
of paws in the mistaken dust and through my window the air is still and still it is air despite all the dogs
and what they are owed and although I am wanting more than I can know… (from ‘Mislist’)
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Eley Williams is a writer living in Ealing. She is currently working as a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. www.giantratofsumatra.com
Eley is a Supervisor at Jungftak, an online journal for contemporary prose-poetry; is Co-editor of fiction at 3:AM Magazine; Guest Editor, assisting at Visual Verse; and a Committee Member of Generative Constraints, a collective that examines and performs practice-based research.
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