Hi Doug and thank you once again I think I may just throw the whole bushel out with you liking this stuff - i'll keep posting not much to say on this but the last line is set as one (showing my age! who talks of setting a line now) but, yes, it almost makes it to three... 2 and a half On Fri, August 19, 2011 15:42, Douglas Barbour wrote: > Nice, Lawrence. This is how I ot it; is the last line supposed to be > three? > > Like the allusion to Spicer there... that fits nevertheless into that > space named so... > > > Doug > > > On 2011-08-19, at 4:08 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote: > > >> buried in air voice calloused hope out of range >> >> confined alert stone depth deadening beneath our feet >> >> bad acoustic and abandoned manned machine >> >> to be is to work brain's the engine housing echoes >> >> the skull is deaf connects the neck bone. execute. >> >> information loops the highway with emptiness >> >> a noose choking the nous with clattering readback >> >> buried in air, just the head knows aether >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > > Latest books: > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > Wednesdays' > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10 > .html > > > It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will seem > strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have your > inadequacies. > > William H. Gass > > ----- UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4 wfuk.org.uk/blog ---- Lawrence Upton Dept of Music Goldsmiths, University of London