It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.

Creeley lived in Waldoboro Maine Buffalo New York and Providence Rhode Island where he taught at Brown University. He was close with Charles Olson Robert Duncan Allen Ginsberg John Wieners and Ed Dorn. In 1991 he joined colleagues Susan Howe Charles Bernstein Raymond Federman Robert Bertholf and Dennis Tedlock in founding the Poetics Program at Buffalo.