that too
I was thinking the other day how much I would like to stand on the bridge
at St Erth and look at the poor canalised river
that needs organisation
for years it was up the road... now it's nearly 300 miles
L
On Mon, August 15, 2011 15:56, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Ah, well given what youve been doing in some of your other poems,
> Lawrence, perhaps what this cslls for is expansion. More of that littler
> placed in context...?
>
> Doug
> On 2011-08-15, at 8:37 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Doug
>>
>>
>> I concluded, over the weekend, that this poem should be dropped
>>
>>
>> and then I came into work, switched on the email and read Sheila's
>> email
>>
>> and that's made me pause
>>
>> and pause
>>
>> so I have been doing other things, much as a confused cat washes its
>> arse
>>
>> and paws
>>
>> I suppose it is English, yes; but, being culturally English, and having
>> spent so much of my life in this country, I don't see it
>>
>> (no more do I have images of England when I listen to Elgar tho many
>> would have it so)
>>
>> What you say pleases me though, because it hadn't occurred to me how
>> much of the world is now junked in the same litter
>>
>> one of the dark enjoyments when I go to the west side of scilly is
>> walking the coast and seeing what has washed ashore - in generic terms
>> it's probably not much different to Samoa or the Bering Straits (no
>> foxes on scilly though)
>>
>> Thanks for the encouragement. The poem persists with a question mark on
>> its bottom
>>
>>
>> L
>>
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