at this point, for now,
inherently inter-tidal
on a gantry over saltings
and behind, few works really grounded
a causeway,
a motorway on stilts,
a railway, the same,
unstopping cars
and few pedestrians
all rush
one sees the fallacy of land…
which is afloat if imperceptibly
the flood
transforms that which it releases
realises that which it retakes
assurance of inconstancy
resistance
every false an equalising and apposite motion
there being no here
and here being's beings' fantasy
and basis
one leaves to walk on
moving surfaces
surfaces of movement
a sedimentary persistence
coming together of particles
and waves gathering the sediments
the gravity of situation
sentimental
spent
flushed
before they harden
hence the hard clear eyes
of fish and birds
hear
today
it shone
the next day
gone except in memory
subject to re-assay
re-instantiation
a predicate of unpredictability
the tide's turn time quite known
but not or ever mappings of its flow
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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