Begins ‘still,’ but by the end I’d say there’s a lot of activity, Lawrence. Movement through that ‘life’?
I found the line breaks also kept the thing jangly & active, how they stopped & shoved forward at once…
Doug
On Feb 12, 2015, at 6:03 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> white flowers greyed brick;
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> porcelain Venus; dog
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> breathing heavily,
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> collapsing; creeper
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> over walls; voices
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> on a weak loudspeaker
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> van between cars;
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> automated distaste bad style,
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> she says, increasingly,
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> I hear voices,
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> repetition of
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> the obvious footholds
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> in a failing cliff, high
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> speed down hill, a broken
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> arbour, desolate fields,
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> inspection plate, man
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> with a machine gun, buried
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> cables, burst communications,
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> a paint pot rusty
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> from rain, dry now;
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> another tipped on its
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> side, a smile indicating
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> trust, implying it
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> at least, an indicative
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> mutter, pardon is self-
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> conscious defensive
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> aggression held back;
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> a small periscope;
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> muffled voices calm;
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> complete solutions;
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> men with triumphant
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> faces, gesturing
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> in motion, displays
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> flickering, capital
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> expenditure loose;
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> a typhoon of inner
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> ear, petals unfolding
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> from covered faces;
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> circumnavigation
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> of bare electric wires
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Douglas Barbour
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