Thank you very much. I appreciated that greatly
L
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From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: snap
I always appreciate the way your snaps are so photographic, Lawrence:
moments caught.
Doug
On 4-May-05, at 1:30 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> a lowering of the light, but not contrast;
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> an increase there, and fresher;
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> a stronger wind, and cooler;
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> easier to see; less easy to stand still
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> enhanced edges on each wave -
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> diluted white over each drabbed rolling colour,
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> red with much green becoming
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> green becoming
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> blue with persistent reddening
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> but a finger nail below the sky chalked blue
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> where the sea is shallow,
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> one line, a sudden yellow
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> where it becomes beach sand
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> frayed the other way in a deeper blue -
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> the concertina-ed miles of Irish Sea
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> beyond my scope or interest today
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> Inshore it's all froth
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> where rock and concrete break the lunar flow
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> tourists in overcoats ashore
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Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
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