what do you remember. if i ask you quick without trying to recall. what do you remember first, not your first memory that's probably made up, but just now what strikes your present memory chord. are you actively making memory? i remember a minute before i was reading mcglue. i pause to contemplate, why did she name him mcglue, and is the guy in the tavern from the customs house, hathorne, is that nathaniel hawthorne, i presume? at the same time i remember walking out on the ice of lake michigan by the engine house of the shipwreck that was tilted up in big sheets tall as a human, with mister, and i wonder if he remembers, they do remember, though you only know by how they look at you, when you visit the site of a memory they make eye contact, their eyes say yes i do remember. i remember when it snowed to the roof of our house in deerfield too and we climbed to the rooftop through a hole in the attic i presume, with the family basset hound, and launched him into the drift and jumped down after him, and tunneled to the front door, and knocked for mom, and wonder if i made it all up, from my childhood on.