I like the shift to sound at the end, Lawrence, after all that sighting... (not to say that the words arent sounding thruout...).
Doug
On 2011-07-27, at 5:48 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> “London Overground” landscape
> West Croydon to Norwood Junction
> Tuesday July 26 2011
>
> Flowering stuff hikes up mounds; and piles,
> odd-looking, on to other form, over
> summits; which might be explainable
> if we could see what crap’s beneath:
> tumbles and folds of growth under
> similar topoi to old duvets
> thrown clumsily or dragged off a bed.
>
> Smallnesses droop as no valley
> ever dipped, bent by surrounding.
>
> Low cliffs creep guardedly, predators;
> a sense of openness gives up
> at fences of varying ferocity.
>
> One sees, to some extent, when the trains roll,
> such space as moving film, and rattling
> a harsh unrelated sound track,
> connecting by slurred accidence.
>
>
>
>
> (NB for non Londoners: London Overground is a train service. "Overground"
> is colloquial for trains that are not Underground / tube - though much of
> that is above ground! Now one set of lines has appropriated the word. It's
> a train train system as opposed to a tube train system. I thank you.)
>
> -----
> solo poems
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Try%20Valley.pdf
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Walking.pdf
> -----
> collaborative visual work:-
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
> ----
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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