I love this, its movement and pictures and rhythms - but I'm also
mystified. That doesn't matter ... I shall look up Crugkerns and maybe
that'll set out something.
I'm not sure about the archaic "t'other" - it distracts from the
surrounding words and flow.
Back to this in the morning (here at home now).
Andrew
On 2 November 2011 21:54, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> two words
> reefs in shallow water
>
> one word is long and flat
> the other approaching cubic
> which stands well out of waves
> and yet, now, it's gone, both gone
>
> one above the other
> below or above another
> beside one beside t'other
> and each part unlike each other
>
> a knife moves towards a brain
>
> the brain divides into a complex of 2 & 3 & 1
> becoming scissors.
>
> blades which
> separate &
> show themselves
>
> the body of a sheep
> defending young
>
> eyes of insects
>
> that's one word
> another's shattering
>
> that is a third
>
> but it is a white, horse-head dragon
> roaring conflagration
>
> these three
> form a triangle
>
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Andrew
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