Dear Mike,
I'm very behindhand, I'm confused here-probably my stupidity. Is this a
bronze horseman -not one carved from stone? If so, why the implication it's
made from rock?
I think we make a distinction between a metallic ore and the matrix, just as
when we burn coal, we don't think of it as burning rock.
L6 :I'd have from which it rears, rather than rears up.
L13, what is the object of strain- the force?should it be strains, then?
Kind regards,
grasshopper
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From: "Mike Horwood" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:19 PM
Subject: [THE-WORKS] New sub: The Bronze Horseman
The Bronze Horseman
As if stone had become articulate
after its journey from interstellar dust,
across the galaxy, through ore and metal
to alloy, the body of his horse,
balanced on its hind legs and tail,
grows out of rock from which it rears up.
Granite springs into the upward surge
of starting muscles and bursts like Ariel
out of rigid space into the movement of bronze.
He sits astride the beast, the pinnacle and triumph,
his arm raised along the line of stoneīs leap,
metalīs surge, the force that placed him there
to shout into the night, strain to reach
for the sky, those very stars whence he came.
Mike
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