I like the swift visuals, & the colours, Lawrence.
I suspect there may be some small edits, eventually, but this one moves...
Doug
On 2013-03-27, at 4:49 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> a turn in a half-circle looking southward
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> a curve of granite uplands; and, between,
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> within a half-ellipse of stone and sight
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> in which the broken peaks, older than Jehova,
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> have precedence in shaping function,
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> fields, many showing evidence of work
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> turn the other way, and the universe
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> is shaped striped pottery -- light blue;
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> dark blue with green; then green and brown
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> the rectangularity of hedge grids
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> does not change the underlying circularity
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> of this end of present Earth, finis terra
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> (so much more impressive than English lands end
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> suggesting a state of things which needs specialism:
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> there's not just some water you can't ford or round
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> but the significance is read inland
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> where all directions converge or double back
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> as if in panic at an abattoir truck
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> this morning's a bronze age, flowering yellow,
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> chunk greys glow with the sunlight they have sucked;
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> green shimmering beneath white-and-blue
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> in which the moon floats on bright Earth shadow
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> tilted upon the flow of other gravity
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> a standing stone in the middle of its field goes on
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> study it
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> rub your head and arse on it
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> like a cow
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> this is an entire space to be
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> while its warm
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> a bare dry wall-stone pulsates
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> with tiny spiders, each staggering onward,
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> the road's wet with them, briefly;
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> small birds hesitate and then flutter about, eating them bittily
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> hesitant and not quite sure, full of urges
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> listen to the first few insects hum, the wind lifting
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> your hair across your ears, your blood ascending
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> and descending the pyramid of the brain
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> not stunned and sweaty as in August's greatest heats
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> but still as before any opening out,
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> the day-time yet too brief and chilly daisied
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Douglas Barbour
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