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PART ONE

The

SKELETONS

Ah, Franklin!

To follow you, one does not need geography.

At least not totally, but more of that

Instrumental knowledge the bones have,

Their limits, their measurings.

The eye creates the horizon,

The ear invents the wind,

The hand reaching out from a parka sleeve

By touch demands

that the touched thing be.

GWENDOLYN MACEWEN, Terror and Erebus

Ah, for just one time,

I would take the Northwest Passage

To find the hand of Franklin

reaching for the Beaufort Sea

Tracing one warm line through a land

so wide and savage

And make a Northwest Passage to the sea.

STAN ROGERS, “Northwest Passage”