As I look at the series, all of this one view so to speak, Lawrence, I come to see that one of the things it's doing is finding as many ways as possible to 'describe' -- via various tropes, metaphors, etc -- the one always changing scene...
The poetics of that continues to surprise & interest....
Doug
On 2012-01-04, at 7:28 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Two rectangles of stone, the one light brown,
> strong sun shine suggesting gold
> troubling sea
> rapacious automatically, breaking it up;
> both areas as shattered
> and next other
> weak grey, merging into blank sand swell
>
> neither is squared off
> broken mosaic
> perhaps one never finished
> a start made
> abandoned as sea rose later that day --
> one daft place to demonstrate civilization…
>
> organic, what look like old walls;
> just random, what might be significant…
>
> tyre tracks thrusting across the dune vanishing
> among grasses and pebbles
> patternless
>
> a chance of fragmented evidence
> of loss
>
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