i didn't mention the wind
(the world's, not mine)
tho that heads into what is silence? etc
i ignored the wind
but yes, thanks
it's quite a scary place - and in the way that it can feel dodgy going up
a short ladder inside a house, depending on the ladder and the
surroundings, though this is high enough; but it's also crumbling and
tilted; I've stood at, for little me, ridiculous heights in NW England and
Scotland and not been bothered
there - Lamorna - it's a little bit unstable in the way that granite can
be as it ages
and ahead there is the abandoned quarry above Lamorna village that always
looks to me like a stop frame in an avalanche... so it's in one's mind
the hole came as a shock
i'm used enough to going down dips where the rock's crumbled and fallen
into space undermined by the sea - and you can often read that it made a
terrible noise in 1920 or 1870 or whatever; but these was a few days
before; which was a little bit close; I wouldn't like to be standing on it
when it went
all of which hasn't got much to do with the poem as poem
glad you like it
L
On Thu, August 18, 2011 16:31, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> I like it, not least the spacing & thus the sound&silences...
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> Doug
> On 2011-08-18, at 5:11 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> red mesh fence big hole
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>> granite falls into itself
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>> sea under sings Boom!
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