Thanks Sue? SallyE and Christina.

This was triggered by a reprimand from the ex-schoolmaster who runs our
poetry group:
14 lines and a detention for not turning up on Friday.
The other thing that set it off was my frustration with a laptop that
decides not to (quite) close down fully, leaving one unsure as to whether or
not everything has been saved properly. I suppose it also has shades of
J.H.Prynne, whose poetry I have been reading again lately.

Roger.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina Fletcher" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: New Sub: 14 lines written in detention


> I'm going to pretend that asymptotically's a regular feature in my
vocabulary
> so naturally, I didn't have to look it up in my pocket dictionary.  I
think
> you can get away with it in the first line, Roger - the reader's fresh
enough
> to have a shufti and it is a lovely word (in a loopy kind of way).  I
really
> like this: I enjoy the subtle rhymes and sounds: the imbued/bird kind of
> thing.  Ooo -err...
> I also like the way you've made what I suspect are real things surreal.  I
> get the feeling that this might have been triggered by the self assessment
> deadline but perhaps I'm paranoid.
> bw
> christina
>
>
> > 14 lines in detention.
> > (with no rhyme or reason)
> >
> >
> > Minimising assymptotically, the window
> > hears the rush of the year beneath
> > and erratic logic betrays the trust
> > imbued in the snow-covered bird
> > sitting on the right hand of the deity.
> > To our presence given over, dangerously,
> > the sodium light glares through
> > the frosted glass pane while the mouse
> > endlessly consumes its block of cheese.
> > Art Thou, O Data safely tucked away
> > within the bowels of rotational stores
> > counted backwards and checksummed
> > in thy profound and infinite wisdom
> > wherein the answer is a cyclical prime?
> >
> >
> > Roger Collett.
> >
>
>
>