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>A kind of unwanted hagiography (or hagiographer), Lawrence? Certainly. Elid doesn't want it. Dead more 1000 years. I was a bit excited when I heard of him, in 2002 I think; and quickly found that once you had the name and knew about the possible grave, that was it. >I wonder if ' not safe' ight work a little better as ' nor safe'...? You may well be right. Thank you. I shall think seriously about that. >I really liked the line break in 'oddly placed masses causing space to be': that pause. Thank you. I got a small buzz from that L On 1 October 2014 19:07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A kind of unwanted hagiography (or hagiographer), Lawrence? > > A kind of last chapter to the legend, perhaps ? > > I wonder if ' not safe' ight work a little better as ' nor safe'...? > > I really liked the line break in 'oddly placed masses causing space to > be': that pause. > > Doug > On Oct 1, 2014, at 7:15 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > I call it my cave, though it is not one; > > > > but piles of rock among intermixed boulders, > > > > oddly placed masses causing space to be > > > > held by mad windows big as doors; passages > > > > in which a man, even one of my height, > > > > must often bend. It's never warm; not safe. > > > > And I live in this dismal capacity, > > > > each pulse failing, as aging animals > > > > withdraw themselves to release meagre spirits > > > > into selfless generalising voids; > > > > or I'm a creature which found itself > > > > its true domain, hidden much of the time > > > > to emerge at half-light for the urgent needs: > > > > feeding, and emptying its body of foul wastes. > > > > They think I'm dead; but all they'd see's a ghost; > > > > or something unembodied, apparently shaped > > > > as a caricature gesticulating > > > > > > > > [Elidius is one of the names of one who may have lived at some time after > > the Roman period on Scilly, or, as it then seems to have been called, > > Ennor. There is no evidence of him apart from the earlier name of St > > Helen's island, where it is said he may have been buried, Insula Sancti > > Elidii. His feast day is 8th August. Until now he has had no > hagiographer. ] > > > > 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 >