I thought it might be
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On 6 January 2016 at 21:17, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
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> L my pleasure P
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> -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Upton Sent: Wednesday, January
> 6, 2016 4:43 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: so far untitled
> well thank you for that, Patrick
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> L
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> On 6 January 2016 at 10:00, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]
> >
> wrote:
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> L seems to have a touch of Gothic or HP Lovecraft here -is it a Sutton
>> thing? :-)
>> P silent observer in thickening gloom of a less coherent construct of
>> the world -of Raynes Park
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>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Upton
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 9:29 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: so far untitled
>>
>> Last scenery passes, dissolving
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>> into the spreading dusk, trying now
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>> it might seem, to enforce an entry
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>> to the mind of this silent observer,
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>> a penetration carrying sunlight
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>> or what is left of it, in suspension.
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>>
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>> We go on quietly through a thickening gloom
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>> to find our sign-posted destination.
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>> Having arrived, we get out of the car,
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>> separating ourselves from it and the noise
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>> which we make in it on it creaking springs
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>> and other mettle, standing on Earth's surface,
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>> ill-fitting doors banging as we close them
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>> in topographical architectures
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>> of sound, which one might easily ignore
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>> not by inattention but in focus
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>> upon smaller and immediate details
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>> of a less coherent construct of the world
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>> than those which we've dreamt up and used so far
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>> suggestive of a great antiquity
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>> but only from a standpoint localised.
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>> As individuals' movements dominate,
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>> sentimentality may soon suspend.
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>> We walk to our hotel, hearing ourselves
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>> do so in a blinding vista, each watchful,
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>> though not with that much co-ordination,
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>> which could seem impossible without clatter
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>> yet our space is filling with sonic light.
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