The poem was a response to a given set of circumstances that prevailed at
that particular moment in time. There was something epiphanic about the
television informing me and outside a brilliant spring afternoon drew me out
to start fiddling with the garden. It was a poem for the moment, the day and
not really for posterity.
Regarding flicker, you are right that today's screens do not flicker the way
older screens did but I meant it more that with a rapidly changing scene on
the screen the light levels moved about considerably as it does also when
there is lots of movement. Try reducing the light in the room, not look at
the screen but at the light emitted by the screen as caught say by a
person's face and you will I think agree that it flickers.Regards Arthur
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