Doug,
In response, two short scenes arise from films I've viewed relatively recently. So I wonder how much time passes during your snap ekphrastic?
Barry
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 08:15:40 +1000, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Fascinating glimpse, Doug. So the eye camera takes in far more than any
>camera camera?
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>Bill
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>> I like the way the enjambment holds the poem together tightly, like a
>> not-so-gentle hand guiding the reader, who seems about to leap off the edge
>> of a cliff into the ocean below.
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>> What was the photograph or painting?
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>> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Subject: snap ekphrastic
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>> the far horizon
>> hangs there grey
>> & cut off by camera
>> s edge a shade
>> of distance difference
>> caught in perfect focus
>> as below each piece
>> of land sea bridge
>> holds the eye first also
>> focused perfectly
>> till it drops to
>> that lower window
>> vertigo of straight down
>> through girders rails
>> to the always waiting sea
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>> What you died of,
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