well said, Doug, articulating what I was beginning to see for myself.
Max
Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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.
> >
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