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You say such nice things. Thank you very much L On 15 October 2014 19:11, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I read a scene of electric experimentation or such-like, Lawrence. That > is, the lines allow each refer to 'see' something out of a singular memory > horde of images, some imagined from reading, some from films (in my case > anyway), that may have nothing to do with what you began with, but... > > that jar, the jarring pain, the failure of anything to fit properly... > > just who might be present, & why... > > Doug > On Oct 15, 2014, at 4:27 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > A little noise, a little space; a little curvature; clicking of > connections > > together, scraping of missed contacts, pain jammed with speech... > > > > a spill of laughter rolls down the side of its storage jar, spreading, > > thinning, slowing... > > > > speech pushed into pain to make it swish... > > > > curlicues of wire in a wire depth, cables trail the ground over > distressed > > soil... > > > > sea breaks on a ridge of shingle; beech tree creaks against itself; a > field > > begins to dry and crack... > > > > the talk is wearing thin; the pain sticks out, the drink runs out; the > > silence is wet and sticky, echoing inside itself... > > > > nothing fits properly yet > > > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 > (UofAPress). > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). > > that we are only > as we find out we are > > Charles Olson >