Hi Sally,
Thank you for your kind comments. I'm glad it worked for you. I've been
dithering over whether to put an "and" in that last line, and think I might
now.
Regards,
Matt
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From: The Pennine Poetry Works [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Sally James
Sent: 21 November 2004 12:32
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Subject: Re: New sub: Developments
I like the poem and the title Matt and the double meaning it implies, I love
the ending the "monochrome afternoon" maybe it could be (and) a monchrome
aftrenoon. A lot in this poem for me which worked on many layers. Lovely,bw
Sally J
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>Developments
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>Years he waited in vain for something unseen
>to emerge from the emulsion under safe light.
>In the early days, the loved one, long departed,
>leaning into shot over someone's shoulder,
>
>or the woman who gave Corkscrew Lane
>its bad name, ghosting past unwitting witnesses.
>In the 70s, of course, it was spacemen and saucers,
>and he would scan the skies above wedding scenes
>
>for signs of life on other planets. Now he enjoys
>the digital delay, that frozen second between
>button and display. Sometimes no amount
>of experience can prepare him for the way,
>
>in six expensive megapixels, late sun picks out
>the blush on a wintering goosander's white breast,
>where moments earlier there was only a man,
>a settling pool, a monochrome afternoon.
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