Apparently gentle, yes, Lawrence, but in the context of the series, a
rather bleak undercurrent there.
It's becoming a large & gnarled vision of a society quietly gone dark.
Doug
On 22-Mar-10, at 1:28 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Next door’s garden is dry earth.
> Their ground is almost levelled.
> You can see where it’s been dug,
> weak flowers growing wide apart
> which they water every night
> because there is no shade there.
> Walking just raises the dust.
> They try not to cause damage
>
> and stare from their windows
> down to the end-wire and trees,
> with lights on throughout each night,
> at the noisy engines one hears.
> They are proud of their planting
> and read up how to improve it.
>
>
> --
> "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
> http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
> ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of
> what it
> is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
>
> ‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers
> Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
>
> "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
> free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc
>
> ‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
>
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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