I like the play across the page (space), Lawrence; but most interesting is the passive eye seeing it...
how it enters, not how it's actively seen?
Doug
On 2011-09-01, at 2:12 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> dry-stone wall
> and cat
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> mist has the bay one-sided
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> dry beach
> heard ocean
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> unfinished wall with tipped up cat wobbling
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> mist holds the one side bay
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> birds’ howl
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> ocean heard
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> wet sand, bricks
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