Dear Patrick
On Sat, December 24, 2011 13:17, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Porth a nice word but three times is that over porthing
Could be. I'll think about it. There are few alternatives; but that
doesn't me off the hook
> But watch out for big oral cavities
er, yes
L
> Cheers Patrick -old cove beating incessantly !!
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 21 December 2011 14:54
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> Subject: The bar between The Gugh and St Agnes seen from St Agnes
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> The bar is wide, the weather calmer than before.
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> The cove beats incessantly.
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> The porth's quiet.
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> Few of the bar looks that grey. It is fair
> or pallid. It is all whitish.
> Sun's bright.
> Little contrast. Detail is difficult to find .
> Is this an effect of light? or of bleaching?
> of other weathering? or of disturbance bringing new stone to the bar?
>
> And thick strands
> and tangles of seaweed. At the porth edge, some rocks are almost black with
> weed, and some almost submerged by it. At the cove edge, especially to the
> east, rocks, lichen brown pile up. Between those two darknesses
> are whisperings, almost electrical in kind and strength; smooth sand or
> ragged stone which, in dazzle, could be small broken shells; and, yet,
> imagine a change of eyes' angle, observers, being seen, disclose
> differences.
>
> The bend of dark weed at the full cove edge,
> like to a beach turn but at tighter angle, breaks out patchily into the
> white as if black had been spat, albeit from a giant mouth.
>
> Identify the evidence; and pause;
> consider many possibilities. Undoubtedly, closer looking dispels
> the illusion of discharge. One must think so, in lieu of a big oral cavity.
> If one appears, then we must improvise.
> All of us. The cowards, the wise, the brave,
> the indolent, the uninvolved, ignorant, and fools, all of me, huddled here,
> waiting.
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> The eastern coast of the porth is dark, hardly
> the bar at all, part of The Gugh itself, spotted by grey stones partly
> buried in growth; and, between that and the emitted incursion, grey stones
> an oddness, darker than broken colour, all shading dimly steadily towards
> the sea. Near sands are patchily bright.
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>
> It's almost black
> on each coast; but perspective dominates and restricts the visibility.
> Whiteness
> fails variegated with few dark stones. There are many small bits, which
> increases a faceting of the whole. They sparkle: probably mica's
> high-reflectivity.
>
> The sands are heavily trodden; flattening; barren.
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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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