3 January 2020

I cannot remember much about the dream, but I was studying the psychology of Victorian men and their views towards women, their attempt to understand women, as a reality and as an idea, and I felt compassion for their foolishness, wrongheadedness, hopeless reverent grasping, even petty unkindness, and there was something I was trying to capture in my mind in how they were trying to capture something in their mind about women, something deep, deep down in the body, down to the bones, and I woke up and wrote: "Communing with the bones of women."