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Lawrence, I like this much up to the last stanza - it's very present - But the end stanza seems to struggle to make an analysis of the poems and its meaning. Prefer - I do - to let it be and let me (reader), if I want, to interpret meaning or process. I like staying with 'the facts' and letting whatever intelligence (as process) be implicit to their arrangement/revelation in the poem. Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > Thank you very much > > L > -----Original Message----- > From: Tina Bass <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:37 PM > Subject: Re: snap > > > This has a very subdued tone - in keeping with the message(s). > It's lovely. > > Tina > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:13 PM > Subject: snap > > > Out the train window > > > It is, I'd say, no longer what I see... > I find, nowadays, I don't do all that well - > some blue-topped dwelling packs east of Reading... > winds of river and several canal gates - > > I know where I am. It is familiar - > spatters of sharp sunshine fill in my sight, > turning trackside gravel into hard snow, > and I am lost in that for that instant... > > That's another point, isn't it, of course - > Here are no surprises. It has become dull. > wishing another journey, some quick way > > for the ordinary to be found as still extraordinary, > composing itself to shocking baggy perception, > strong hale cognition surpassing itself