Do you mean shifts within the set or within the poem, Doug? I'm not sure
that you'll follow much re the set because of the way I am issuing them
here, which is almost anti-pattern. Within the poem... I dunno. I'm not
sure there's much to follow! I don't think it works like that. Mind you,
that may be a fancy way of saying it's not very good. Dunno
Ta for response
L
On 10 July 2013 17:57, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hmmnnn: negation all the way down, so to speak.
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> 'thin love's 'wasting thought'? I move with the shifts, but dont quite
> 'follow' them, Lawrence: still, ti bites...
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> Doug
> On 2013-07-10, at 10:32 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > blood drips between my legs; and the weak sunshine
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> > feels cold; the clock plunders a loose memory;
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> > I am now an alien thing, lewd echoes
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> > of a questioning grin with a too loud voice
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> > listening to the radio; and invisible,
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> > in a room without mirrors. They are no use.
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> > A wasting thought flaps deftly from its head
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> > as one discovers something of thin love,
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> > out of lonliness and its admonition
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> > from some unknown cause. I ask forgiveness;
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> > and that is a machine of destruction.
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> > We are guilty in any illumination.
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