WHEN THEY LOST THE PLOT WE HAD ONLY THE NOTES TO GO ON

[1] The neopantoum structure, with its use of the hard rhymes drape, nape, rape, escape, echoes the beating wings of the seagull.

[2] Well-known for prefiguring Apollinaire’s calligrammes, she wrote little (if anything) after the Russian Revolution.

[3] Word unclear in the original.

[4] A copy hangs in the Louvre.

[5] 1865?-1918

[6] Reputed mistress of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), Lady Beaufort was never in Antibes.

[7] Can be translated either as the colour or as the degenerative disease.

[8] Text corrupted. This rendition assumes that she survived childbirth and did in fact visit the Lesser Antilles.