thank ye
some of it does, did - some i coulda done without
J
On 30/08/2012, at 8:08 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Jill hope the brooding goes well
> P Vossed
>
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> Subject: snap voss words
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> 'The air will tell us'
>
> - Patched from Voss
>
> Strings, forms, necessity
> break continually,
> material
> shapes
> immaterial.
>
> Cave, candlewax, tears
> twanging
> silky, brilliant brooding
> flesh.
> Johann! Laura!
>
> Blowfly, rainbow, scrub
> whispers legend
> mortally, eternal
> disturbing
> white trivialities.
>
> Henceforth, air
> Sprachen
> blau, Himmel.
>
> [Each word in the poem also appears separately somewhere in the novel Voss. The poem s title is spoken by Laura Trevelyan in the novel.]
>
> - after Cover design for Voss, 1957, Sidney Nolan
>
> A snap as it was written this week for a project. And it as been a brooding kind of week.
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