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I mean isn't height just relative to what's around it -Denmarks highest mountain is 172m and at my age mountains are above two storeys Cheers P in garden in sunshine waiting for kettle to boil -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton Sent: 28 September 2011 08:26 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: St Ives Bay from The Malakoff It's good you're reading them! I'm less than happy now with the third word, _into_ I'm thinking of _within_ The height, you see, isn't that great. No Cornish heights are, not once you've been up any kind of a mountain, and Tregenna Hill is a mere bump So I am chewing the cud over this Thanks for your readership L On Mon, September 26, 2011 23:32, Douglas Barbour wrote: > I read them all, Lawrence, but dont always have much to say beyond that > (as with the next little one), > > > but I like the 'looking down' here... > > Doug > On 2011-09-25, at 3:47 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote: > > >> Looking down into heaped chaotic sky. >> Tumbled clothing of watery cloud overcast, >> showing much strong white. A small fishing boat slowly disturbs the >> tranquilised bay, followed by gulls flying themselves wave height >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] [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 > > > Why poetry? And why not, I asked, > my right brain humming sedition. > > Phyllis Webb > > > > > ----- 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