Interesting stance here, Lawrence. That would see this -scape as so 'drawn' etc.
So I think as I read the set that the 'writer' has adopted so many different stances/approaches in order to get at the multifariousness of what's observed & of the observation -as-action...
Doug
On 2012-01-24, at 2:17 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> The sea illuminated starkly
> but through cloud, the sky full of water
> and strongly-coloured by reflections,
> because viewed at an acute angle,
> else it’s opaque and matt silvery white.
> A small, powered yacht crosses the harbour,
> going into sea, the bay crowded.
> There are several such craft -- each is drawn
> quite similarly -- crewed by stickmen.
> A flying gull curves repeatedly
> in and out of the frame, from the south,
> flash in an eye, smear upon a lens.
> A boat in the bay, fly crashed on glass,
> quivers. Ashore, all is full right up.
> Houses predominate as always. Nothing
> much has changed. One says same words over.
> Yet, one can see routes, in near foreground,
> for instance; many rushed figures,
> each sharp, uneasily animated,
> modes of Cookham resurrection,
> multitudes of colourful flower heads
> among them . Their faces tend to blankness
>
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