And I like the way theyre almost not there....
Doug
On 2011-11-30, at 6:34 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Like the heavy pushing crowd image cheers P
> Ps
> 'the intransigence of unconscious matter'
> sounds a bit heavy-couldn't it have been just suggested not told/spelled out
> to us??
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 30 November 2011 11:11
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> Subject: The bar between The Gugh and St Agnes, seen from St Agnes
>
> Crowds of predominantly grey boulders
> are stranded in enormous concentration.
> Near The Gugh, they have crossed over
> the top of the sands, northwards, and are almost
> among the seaweeds of Perconger.
> This way, they are not quite there.
> They push each other.
> They stand on their fellow heads,
> personifying, in themselves, the intransigence
> of unconscious matter. Time lapses,
> and still they are here. Time lapses;
> and they are here still, though patterns alter.
>
>
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> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
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Douglas Barbour
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and as you read
the sea is turning its dark pages
turning
its dark pages.
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