Lawrence
I like those lines, but was just saying that _they_ didnt waddle, even as they caught it...
Doug
On 2011-11-19, at 4:15 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> I don't see what's wrong with waddling, you waddleist
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> No other word fits
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> It's hardly a cliche word
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> L
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> On Thu, November 17, 2011 20:08, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> Agree with Sheila, & Stephen. And especially like the mirroring, & then
>> those final four lines, their assurance but no waddling....
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2011-11-17, at 10:42 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>>> Thank you so much, Sheila
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>>> L
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>>> On Wed, November 16, 2011 18:40, Sheila Murphy wrote:
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>>>> This is sterling, Lawrence. Extremely compelling on multiple levels,
>>>> not the least of which is the way that you draw forth one sense by way
>>>> of another. Visual and tactile join beautifully, for example. I feel
>>>> the movement take pinpoint and waved effort. Very fine, indeed.
>>>>
>>>> Sheila
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>>>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> White islands glide over battered granite hills;
>>>>> and, near sky, top floors, empty, unfinished, without balustrades,
>>>>> architecturally complex. Show-through and mirrorings of light
>>>>> splashed on to the soft blue of the atmosphere, setting off dark
>>>>> blues of harbour and bay.
>>>>>
>>>>> Water’s high. It’s after five, boats returning,
>>>>> all predominantly white; and white seagulls, apparently wandering,
>>>>> butterflies. Black back on the roof of Salubrious House… the pine
>>>>> glossy in our garden. Two herring gulls floating on the water of the
>>>>> bay. Three gulls now. A single boat, two people in it, south-east of
>>>>> Smeaton’s lighthouse, going north,
>>>>> only now becoming visible, but fully seen in the room’s mirror. A
>>>>> single boat goes south, perhaps to round the pier into harbour, in
>>>>> both window and glass; in the mirror; and my memory. More gulls
>>>>> butterflying. Wind makes
>>>>> the palm shudder. Boats drift at their tethers. Tourists walk past
>>>>> in the picture’s lower half – I know they’re there -- looking with
>>>>> envious anger at the houses. A half a million pounds’. More than the
>>>>> loss of all one’s limbs and eyes. More than a death. A boat is
>>>>> gleaned into the mirror’s picture, oared, northerly towards a marker
>>>>> buoy; a small boat, but this one’s under power, overhauls it -- it
>>>>> seems some pleasantries exchange – and then departs into the bay’s
>>>>> core and the further ocean, though, at that size, it’ll stay close
>>>>> by land. A larger boat, masted, wooden cabin, comes in from the
>>>>> direction of Godrevy. A tiny outboard seems to pull aside; and the
>>>>> fat boat is only in the mirror, a speedboat following it, but also
>>>>> only in the mirror. As water enters the first of Smeaton’s arches,
>>>>> almost filled by sea-pushed sand, many tourist boats come out,
>>>>> kayaks and pedalos and larger craft, in an unheard buzz, the
>>>>> stinging insects of evening, a lugger, out from the harbour and
>>>>> round the pier then north, smoothly, rapidly, its hue the wide
>>>>> wings, with satiate assurance, of a gull waddling dully on a house
>>>>> roof.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>>>>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>>>>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
>>>>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
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>>> -----
>>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
>>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> 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
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>> and as you read the sea is turning its dark pages turning its dark pages.
>>
>> Denise Levertov
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> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
> wfuk.org.uk/blog
> ----
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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
and as you read
the sea is turning its dark pages
turning
its dark pages.
Denise Levertov
