Yes... well... it's a set. of the loose baggy monster variety. I have
folders (work computer + own computer) called _cornwall_ and _landscape_
and _bar_ and _st ives_
and i am trying to order them
but some of the cornwall poems are not landscape in the way i mean it now;
and so on
dotdotdot
i am reading a biography of robert graves and early on the biographer says
something about him being short-sighted and therefore it was good that at
one point he was in wales because that's just bleak granite and details
don't matter (I am sure I have done violence to what she said; but e'en so
this is much of it)
and i thought of me - i havent started really showing here - writing poem
after poem in which i seek to see differences between one round
footballsized boulder and another -- and all that while the light changes
and changes their appearance and water likewise
double dash
so it's to important stuff but changed and changeable as location and
circumstances alter
this one today was from a fairly short intense period... some time later
they began capping the mines; but even early this century there were
shafts and adits open under the gorse
that concentrates the mind of a reckless walker, but doesn't necessarily
slow him
and i was thinking of - what is it? Geevor Mine, I think - about a century
ago when the man engine - a curious stepwise lift - fell into the mine
when full of men
all that
and a notion i had that millions of years before when those hills had been
mountains where i was walking had been solid rock
not quite e a poe, but sobering
many days i strode around on the tops, casting a cold eye on north and
south and every now and then going up to my thighs in black sludge and
cattle droppings
and writing the occasional poem
of which this is one
I am market testing all this stuff here and wondering whom to offload a
book(s) on
L
On Fri, August 19, 2011 16:11, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Yeah, I see that length thing (& wish I'd paid attention to my own
> typos)...
>
> It was just wondering about that.
>
>
> I note that this one moves all the way through what sounds there....
>
>
> From what you say, these are part of a kind of collection youve been
> making for some years now...?
>
> Sheesh! What happens to lineation when we reply?
>
>
> Doug
> On 2011-08-19, at 9:02 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Doug
>>
>>
>> and thank you once again
>>
>> I think I may just throw the whole bushel out with you liking this
>> stuff - i'll keep posting
>>
>> not much to say on this but
>>
>> the last line is set as one (showing my age! who talks of setting a
>> line now) but, yes, it almost makes it to three... 2 and a half
>>
>>
>> On Fri, August 19, 2011 15:42, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>
>>> Nice, Lawrence. This is how I ot it; is the last line supposed to be
>>> three?
>>>
>>> Like the allusion to Spicer there... that fits nevertheless into that
>>> space named so...
>>>
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2011-08-19, at 4:08 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> buried in air voice calloused hope out of range
>>>>
>>>> confined alert stone depth deadening beneath our feet
>>>>
>>>> bad acoustic and abandoned manned machine
>>>>
>>>> to be is to work brain's the engine housing echoes
>>>>
>>>> the skull is deaf connects the neck bone. execute.
>>>>
>>>> information loops the highway with emptiness
>>>>
>>>> a noose choking the nous with clattering readback
>>>>
>>>> buried in air, just the head knows aether
>>>>
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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>
>
> 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
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