Like lots - its off-centre vernacular and cubic dimensions ... Andrew
On 29 October 2013 13:59, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Love this.
>
> The 'shifting list of munros'. Hah!
>
> Jill
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> Subject:a delayed Snap
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> About It
>
> At first there was a slight problem with bendy tape.
>
> It might have been in metric. Ora half-truth in inches.
>
> I had bought a satellite box, second-hand. I like to peer
>
> into the mundane, like a ball,surfing regional news
>
> because:it reminds me of hotels. Those *crumblingcliffs*
>
> *near Cromer*, the *shifting lists of Munros*, a *postponement*
>
> *
> *
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> (the gift of seeping sewage) of a* County Flower Show*.
>
> I licked a stamp for old times’ sake and thought of islands
> shrinking
>
> and a strange e-mail on metrics. Oh the eternal anonymity
> of three-star rooms. *There must have beena map once
> *
>
> *
> *
>
> *that fit* went a voice on the street, climbing my peephole
> window and so a camera panned from the back of my head
>
> and the clothes that didn’t quite, taking in the skies, the
> streets,
> the farms, the trees, like a greedy sucking engine
>
> looping the continents. I saw huge calendars overthrown
> like statuary; I saw a scarecrow taller than the moon.
>
> And knew the size of it was somewhere, like a pavement,
> or the story of the last thing you’ll ever see.
>
> --
> David Joseph Bircumshaw
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--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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