INTRODUCTION AND POSTSCRIPT TO OEDIPUS CROW
Read by Maggie Newman, words by Angus Johnston
This is a poem that Madeleine sent to a friend of hers, Ian York,
when his father died. It was one of her favorites, and though it's
perhaps not quite the most obvious choice for a memorial, I think it
has a certain resonance.
[poem]
When Ian passed along this poem to us, he said that he and Madeleine
had talked about it quite a bit. She once said something about it
being sad that Crow always loses, but Ian said that that wasn't
right: "Crow never loses, even if he's temporarily down; he always
flips a feathery finger of defiance at the world or death or
whatever it is that thinks it has beaten him."
Here's to Madeleine and her feathery finger of defiance.
Posted by ptomblin at January 17, 2004 02:11 PM