I tend to write more when I walk, especially if I walk for a day or two in a
row - I mean that I don't seem to get a free poem when I go out for a
loaf... lengthy steady walking seems to trigger verbal processes
whether it's any good or not is another matter
& oddly sometimes the poems will reflect what is going on around me; but
more often it'll refer to quite different scapes e.g. earlier this year I
spent a week in Cornwall, a few days in the Home Counties (why are they
called the home counties?) and then a week in Wales and I noticed that much
of the stuff that came into my head continued things I'd been occupied with
in London... and then, while I was in Wales, Cornwall and the eclipse which
I experienced (as opposed to saw) there etc cut in... Like a kind of slow
digestion
These are two quite separate processes, I think -
& some of the delay loops are even longer than a couple of weeks
L
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Sent: 01 November 1999 23:04
Subject: Re: Rhythmic Considerations
| I know a few people who tell me they think of poems while out walking.
| It often happens to me.
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