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On Sun, November 13, 2011 15:27, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Van Gugh!
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 13 November 2011 14:36
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> Subject: The Bar between St Agnes and The Gugh from Agnes
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> Near The Gugh, blocked in by grey stone,
> a short sand runway, slanting at fifteen, twenty degrees south-west
starting
> on a north-south line two thirds of the way across to the south, making a
> fan of scalene triangles, planar, an imagined extending of words raised
> high so it razes the view of the cove side coast of the bar, blocked.
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> The grey stones cross mid-points between
> Perconger and The Cove, beneath
> the highest point of yellowy hills to the immediate south. North are the
> grey, brown, ginger rocks building polygons up to the northern waters'
> edge. This southern end of Perconger
> is not concave; but grey follows it round into a funnel shape right up the
> concrete to St Agnes which is lightly speckled with twigs of stranded green
> plants. And midway
> between islands, carrot and lots of brown give way, to entangled rich kelp
> which is not carried on among boulders at the western end.
>
> Slightly over half way across,
> the runway turns inland, leaving a steep littered slope down to waves.
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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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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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