Interesting prose poem, Lawrence, demonstrating an other way of getting at the land, scaping it out.
I especially liked 'Another wash of light forgets what it is laid on.'
Then checked out 'town' in my OED, & yes.
Doug
On 2011-09-13, at 3:53 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Sky sponged in with exceeding white, softening as it mixes. Scratches in
> the underlying board brought out by paint running in.
>
> Up to the first few degrees above the horizon, it’s brighter than the sea;
> a solitary boat a single mark in an exposed patch of gesso. There, nothing
> has changed pictorially, ever, a calm sea a calm sea. Close under the
> quay, there’s thick shadow broken by an all-white sailing boat.
>
> Birds feed on submerging sand.
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> A flaw in the baseboard might be a chain or rope visible through the
> shallow water. Marker buoys wobble very slightly among the floating gulls.
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> Another wash of light forgets what it is laid on.
>
> The sun climbs from towans, highlighting a vertical con-trail radiating
> from its centre along with cloud ribbon.
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> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
> wfuk.org.uk/blog
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> Lawrence Upton
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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