all seen from a judicious distance, as this film demonstrates…
Doug
On Jul 9, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It's quite like in some ways although the swamp and shingle hardly works -
> I suppose I was thinking of somewhere on the east coast, although there are
> plenty of places
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> On 9 July 2014 16:22, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Welcome to Sutton!
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>> Sent: 09 July 2014 15:32
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Film
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>> *Film*
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>> cars in a large swamped field, circling, multiple wash waves roiling the
>> silt around junk, engines hacking
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>> an old man's head comes out between bars of a prison cell, too dapper to be
>> genuine
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>> a wheel of fires, enclosing a dragon, rolling
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>> writing in the sky; eyes abstracted from heads
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>> low in the evening sky, the open grilles of a furnace door
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>> the cars continue, one stuck near a shingle bar
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>> glowing coals turn into windows
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>> a square of torches held over heads
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Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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