Keep it, Lawrence, keep it - then see how it sits with its neighbours when
you're 'finished' or abandoned the landscapes.
Andrew
On 15 August 2011 22:37, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Doug
>
> I concluded, over the weekend, that this poem should be dropped
>
> and then I came into work, switched on the email and read Sheila's email
>
> and that's made me pause
>
> and pause
>
> so I have been doing other things, much as a confused cat washes its arse
>
> and paws
>
> I suppose it is English, yes; but, being culturally English, and having
> spent so much of my life in this country, I don't see it
>
> (no more do I have images of England when I listen to Elgar tho many would
> have it so)
>
> What you say pleases me though, because it hadn't occurred to me how much
> of the world is now junked in the same litter
>
> one of the dark enjoyments when I go to the west side of scilly is walking
> the coast and seeing what has washed ashore - in generic terms it's
> probably not much different to Samoa or the Bering Straits (no foxes on
> scilly though)
>
> Thanks for the encouragement. The poem persists with a question mark on
> its bottom
>
>
> L
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, August 15, 2011 15:23, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> > much of this can be seen elsewhere, Lawrence, but the fox is especially
> > English...
> >
> >
> > see so fully, finely, & snappishly? Nah: tat's you at work....
> >
> > Doug
> > On 2011-08-13, at 9:59 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> >
> >
> >> old fox in a hedge
> >>
> >> coke can on a twig end
> >>
> >> hub cap among ivy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Tuesday, 30 November 2004
> >> near St Erth
> >>
> >>
> >> -----
> >> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> >> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
> >> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
> >> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
> >> Lawrence Upton
> >> Dept of Music
> >> Goldsmiths, University of London
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >
> >
> > Latest books:
> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > Wednesdays'
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10
> > .html
> >
> >
> > It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will seem
> > strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have your
> > inadequacies.
> >
> > William H. Gass
> >
> >
>
>
> -----
> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
> wfuk.org.uk/blog
> ----
> Lawrence Upton
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
--
Andrew
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