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thank you, sheila I am not sure about the third stanza myself it's more a memo for future writing perhaps but i wasn't sure so... thus, thanks! L On Thu, May 24, 2012 18:47, Sheila Murphy wrote: > I hear this delicious piece quite vividly, and I appreciate it! > First two stanzas, especially, are great. > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > >> Elidius laughs, ecstatic, flame, joy fuelled >> who has known the inverse of bright being, wandering it in intimate >> exploration, patient with the blockage. Like a trapped fly; and as >> ceaseless, always, having escaped. >> >> He burns on the heights of the inner head. >> In a cavernous undercroft beneath him, >> he mourns; and is cursed; and is failing, falling in hate reinforcing >> itself, as does a fire when ash accumulates. >> >> There is no doubt that he is free of men; >> but he is doubtless cut off the same, the whole race, herding, such as is >> here, keeping him back by simple derision. >> >> ----- >> Lawrence Upton >> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept, >> Goldsmiths, University of London >> New Cross, London SE14 6NW >> ---- >> >> > ----- Lawrence Upton Visiting Fellow, Music Dept, Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW ----