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Thank you so much, Doug I have replied twice to Chris and Sheila and haven't seen it back Let's see if this gets through L On Sat, May 19, 2012 16:46, Douglas Barbour wrote: > Agreed. All that 'tidily' done landscape, seen as such, & then the > outriders... > > A narrator seeing but unseen there, too. > > > Doug > On 2012-05-19, at 12:05 AM, Sheila Murphy wrote: > > >> This is a lovely piece, Lawrence, and draws one to what you paint for >> us here (I agree with Chris - Hi, Chris!). Thank you! Sheila >> >> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> I hesitate to say this, but, I am finding these very English in a >>> good way, or perhaps a way I like. I haven't seen this coast but find >>> myself wanting to go... is this south west coast?? Maybe, I could make >>> it there, but not now. But I searched and found some photos. >>> >>> >>> On 19/05/12 04:32, Lawrence Upton wrote: >>> >>> >>>> The bulky slip for the revenuer's boat, >>>> here still, unused for its purpose now, steep, with a more salubrious >>>> paved landing place out to the left, a boat on there, angled. >>>> >>>> An extensive tumble of rock, weed-blackened, >>>> up to the height of another boat, on grass, upon a trolley, an >>>> inflatable, and then there's overgrowth of dense bramble right to the >>>> top of what is visible here. >>>> >>>> A concrete quay, atop and round the old, >>>> white markings for hoi polloi; and steel posts for chains to control >>>> crowds; parcels; packets to be collected; plastic sheets and sacks of >>>> various forms; all most tidily clean in a way suggesting work's >>>> getting done and life is being lived with good effort. >>>> >>>> A slightly rippling sea through burnishing light, >>>> scatterings of markers upon its moving shine, tethered rowing boats >>>> in scintillation up to the shrinking tombolo. Columns >>>> of Scilly Whites near to The Gugh coast edge, cultivated plots >>>> outweighted by noise from others which have self-planted for years of >>>> being untended, unstraightened, left. >>>> >>>> >>>> [Scilly Whites are a type of daffodil] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> Lawrence Upton >>>> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept, >>>> Goldsmiths, University of London >>>> New Cross, London SE14 6NW >>>> ---- >>>> >>>> >>>> >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > > Latest books: > Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962 > Wednesdays' > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10 > .html > > > The postliterate sensibility is offended by anything that isn’t > television, views with suspicion the compound sentence, the subordinate > clause, words of more than three syllables. The home and studio audiences > become accustomed to hearing voices swept clean of improvised literary > devices, downsized into data points, degraded into industrial-waste > product. > > Lewis Lapham > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Lawrence Upton Visiting Fellow, Music Dept, Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW ----