Half a lamp base, bottom at the western side,
curves out, then in and round, and out again
sawn roughly down the middle by the waves.
There’s only half of it remaining here
which will not overbalance too easily,
the top part so much wider but thinner
than the heavy lower half. A cable
runs into it in coils from Perconger.
As usual, there’re lots of unused bits
left to be tidied by some other force
conjectured, desired, not available.
Once in an aeon the image is made perfect.
This one doesn’t work. It’s just a stone sketch,
an image of The Christ in a cut cabbage,
a votive offering vomited by an upset sea;
even the definitions of the process imposed.
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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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