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I suppose so, Doug I accept that I have adopted different stances and approaches; and I have been *trying to do that for so long I find it difficult to get back to how I felt when I started doing that. It is interesting (!) to find that one can find being radical and various or trying to be so and yet still behave -- in some ways -- thoughtless or let's say unconsidered. I have a wide range of example graphical approaches to refer to; and I enjoy and find fruitful making links and cross-references between the two, an idea that has been with me for ages via _visual poetry_ and _linear poetry_; and anything observed, which is *anything whether it's objectively there or not, is potentially seen as multifarious Thanks for all your comments over the months L On Tue, January 24, 2012 18:09, Douglas Barbour wrote: > 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 >> > > 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 > > > What dull barbarians are not proud of > their dullness and barbarism? > > Thackeray > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4 wfuk.org.uk/blog ----