Because she was no longer present. Nor was he. Because although you knew, your body observing them go, and their bodies emptying, that they might pass through a dream or two, or the electrical wires, no more illusion than illusion, terminus than terminus - You spoke to them, to yourself, but you were not listening. Used the wrong instrument for insight. "Canal" is Saskia Hamilton's first volume of poetry to be published in the UK, and contains work from two collections previously published in America - "As for Dream" (2001) and "Divide These" (2005) - as well as new work.