I like the descriptions, Dominic, but also the subtle shifts of person & perception toward that landscape...
Doug
On 2011-06-07, at 1:41 PM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> i)
>
> a black swan he says
> give us a black swan
> easy
> easy now
> no need to stir up the agon
>
> over what very well might
> be nothing
> a white
> swan on black water
> drifting
>
> through late evening
> as the light
> ebbs
> and shadows lie down across
> the way you came
>
> ii)
>
> soundtracked with low strings
> with tremelo
> portentous
> or bearing portent
> sinister modulation
>
> of the air
> enclosing stillness
> the clouds' high striated
> cirrostratus
> rippling in convection
>
> as the white neck bows
> and horses in the next
> grey field
> start and trample
> shaking themselves loose
>
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