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L my pleasure P -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Upton Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 4:43 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: so far untitled well thank you for that, Patrick L On 6 January 2016 at 10:00, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > L seems to have a touch of Gothic or HP Lovecraft here -is it a Sutton > thing? :-) > P silent observer in thickening gloom of a less coherent construct of > the world -of Raynes Park > > > -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Upton > Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 9:29 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: so far untitled > > Last scenery passes, dissolving > > into the spreading dusk, trying now > > it might seem, to enforce an entry > > to the mind of this silent observer, > > a penetration carrying sunlight > > or what is left of it, in suspension. > > > > We go on quietly through a thickening gloom > > to find our sign-posted destination. > > > > Having arrived, we get out of the car, > > separating ourselves from it and the noise > > which we make in it on it creaking springs > > and other mettle, standing on Earth's surface, > > ill-fitting doors banging as we close them > > in topographical architectures > > of sound, which one might easily ignore > > not by inattention but in focus > > upon smaller and immediate details > > of a less coherent construct of the world > > than those which we've dreamt up and used so far > > suggestive of a great antiquity > > but only from a standpoint localised. > > > > As individuals' movements dominate, > > sentimentality may soon suspend. > > > > We walk to our hotel, hearing ourselves > > do so in a blinding vista, each watchful, > > though not with that much co-ordination, > > which could seem impossible without clatter > > yet our space is filling with sonic light.