i give a note for 'pure light' here since i can find no other existing information.
i believe this song was composed in Chicago
in 1976. it is an expansion of a lyric
or poem that was given me by a fan in Rogers Park.
i believe the young woman's
name was Joy Cohen. she made several live recordings of my shows
at the No Exit
coffee house there. sometime in the mid '90s she died very
prematurely of cancer.