Hi James,
I looked at this before and I was worried about it then. I'm still worried.
Perhaps it isn't working too well for me because I can't see a bridge. I 
also can't see where the narrator is! If the narator is near the place where 
the concrete is being poured I think there's be far more activity, noise, 
and weather. But this narrator could be anywhere - and, because the bridge 
could also be anywhere, I'm struggling to focus!
Give me a bridge, dammit, give me a bridge!!! (LOL)
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: Building Bridges
>Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:12:27 +0000
>
>This is a new one straight from the notebook. First draft, warts and all. 
>Comments very welcome.
>
>BUILDING BRIDGES
>
>There must be some kind of sequence
>to building a bridge, especially concrete;
>it has to be poured then set, be held
>in place, in a frame until that section too
>can fly overhead from it abutment.
>
>For other bridges too there must be
>a sequence, pre-planned, pre-ordained
>though less concrete - the process
>to move from hardness to fluidity,
>a shimmer from bank to bank until
>the two meet, reconcile their divide,
>join in accord as designed and engineered;
>though as fluid there is a flow, can take
>further directions; more than two way.
>
>
>
>bw
>James