Thanks for this. What do you mean by "track"? Is that the same as "scan" -
tho' even here I would not like to give a definition of "scanning a poem".
Or do you mean folllowing the imagery?
Colin
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From: "Gary Blankenship" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 4:20 AM
Subject: Re: shells
> Colin thoughts
>
> Close enough this one is a spire (Close enough this one is doesn't track
> to me)
> whose inside holds the colours of pearl.
>
> Nothing lives here now, but I can model
> the softness of the mollusc as it was,
> snug as a brain in its skull,
> or a hermit crab that found armour for its gut and pushed out claws (break
> at armour)
> ready for anything. This top shell's like a dome
> and the next is a minaret
> enlightened by a single shaft into two coils of white. (and at shaft)
>
> Deeper in the sand, fragments from an older sea
> judge history. There is hunger
> in these tones of milk and honey.
> Some say that each shell is like the calculus (no like)
> that estimates their volume - immutable, discovered - (and volume)
> but I see snail before the shell
> and what's become of base desire. (favorite S)
>
> Lost worlds; they are too beautiful to leave
> to bulldozing waves, the rush of pebbles and all the sea's detritus. (and
> at rush)
> I carry them inland and place them in sunlight.
>
> Smiles.
>
> Gary
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> Gary's book, A River Transformed at http://www.lulu.com/content/178110
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> My blog at http://garydawg.blogspot.com/
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> December's FireWeed at www.mindfirerenew.com.
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