Thanks Bob. Your guesses are all correct. The "you" is me using the second
person as a distancing effect learned from Selima Hill. Sorry you were
puzzled but I did want the reader to work a bit, and you did very well.



bw
James





>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: the sun is higher at noon
>Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:49:43 +0000
>
>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]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>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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