a circling, indeed, Lawrence. makes me wonder in what, with what power of observation. felt like a ride with a particularly nosy & persistent drone…
of course I thought ‘not waving but drowning’ in the first stanza, & maybe that’s the feeling you intended throughout…?
Doug
On Dec 17, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> skyline going down in fire
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> in water, couple of arms
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> thrown up and then failing --
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> the world turns upside down
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> comes round in orbit; sky,
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> the ground, the ground the sky,
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> moving fast; the road,
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> the planet, fast-moving cloud --
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> old man out in the garden,
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> dark figure in bright sun,
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> over-exposed, light
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> cascading through a lens,
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> just missing him, whitewash
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> tipped from a bucket, pulling
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> a spade or a fork, straw hat
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> on his head, a pale blue sky,
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> sharp vision! tilting over
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> as we go at high speed;
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> a woman's foot on a
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> weighing machine; edge of
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> the bath visible, its side
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> wall and white top; corner
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> of the hand-basin; coffee
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> cup stains on the bath; mud
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> stains on the floor. She steps
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> off; the scale swings back and
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> forth; clank; wearing stockings;
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> oranges and apples juggled;
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> some children's hands throwing
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> and catching them; cameras
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> pointing into the sky
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> to catch the hands and fruit;
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> advertising signs
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> and signposts out of focus,
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> curve of a wheel giant at large
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> seen close (bonnet, headlight,
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> both look a bit old-fashioned,
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> both slightly blurred), all things
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> are solarised; winner
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> crossing the finishing line,
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> police tackling a striker,
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> tumbling together, skittles
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> colliding, grasses
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> interweaving under
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> the wind, my voice and a TV
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> shouting together to make
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> one image; milk bottles;
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> pillars of the British Museum,
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> turkeys and Canada geese
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> walking this way, topiary
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> hedges, woman swinging
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> a cape beneath her head,
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> two men shaking a carpet,
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> toreador, flag as he crosses
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> the line, and the spacecraft
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> rolling in space - a child
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> with whooping cough - a snake
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> eating flies at evening
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Douglas Barbour
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