Lawrence, this was evocative for me. Believe it or not, I first read
"headstone" on line one.
The sense that arrives from each tone intrigues.
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Early Mendelssohn on cheap headphones.
> It can be identified far off:
> Opus twenty. Through a blender.
>
> But she, closer to a centre
> of life, stares into the spaces
> of its dynamic rising peace.
>
> She looks, unfocussed, while her brain
> searches a direction other
> than what its eyes must make of light,
>
> our travelling here, in which we both
> are moved as part of its content,
> her eyes overflowing with tears.
>
> And one might become enraptured,
> within substantial containment.
>
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> Lawrence Upton
> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
> Goldsmiths, University of London
> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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