Hi James,
I'm puzzled by the sepia tones in this poem. I can often go with the flow of
images but I'm struggling here! perhaps I associate sepia with very very old
photographs where style and pose have become more evident than content.
Struggling with that great stretch of time (between the time of sepia and
the modern - do you mean 2004, or a time of high modernism... I guess you
mean today!) I'm then baffled by who the "you" is. Am I just been thick?
Bob
>From: James Bell <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New sub: the sun is higher at noon
>Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:41:37 +0000
>
>I continue my current penchant for lower case.
>
>the sun is higher at noon
>
>
>the sun is higher at noon now
>no forty-five or lower degree angles
>of light blasting from the other side of corners
>you have not yet turned
>
>the light itself is sharp
>its contrast high
>in comparison to how
>it was a month ago
>
>though the buildings are still
>Victorian with modern concerns
>the people on the street too
>stress they are here and now
>
>colours vary unlike the inherent
>charm of a similar scene
>in sepia photographs that
>do not move and have no sun
>
>have no corners round which
>to turn and then blink
>with delight when you reach
>the sun just after noon
>
>when it glitters too
>round a curlew that feeds
>at the edge of the river
>on the opposite side when you reach it
>
>and find there are no more corners
>to turn and leave behind
>only space and a horizon to intimate
>more than sepia more than modern
>
>
>bw
>James
>
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