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and the words are left to take their lines for walks
I knew what I meant!
L
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Subject: Re: St Ives Bay from Barnoon just after dawn
From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, September 13, 2011 19:03
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Hi, and thanks again for noticing!
I have no thesis in saying this, but I don't think of it as prose, rather
as poetry where rhythmic constraints are very greatly loosened and left to
take their lines for walks
L
On Tue, September 13, 2011 18:36, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Interesting prose poem, Lawrence, demonstrating an other way of getting
> at the land, scaping it out.
>
> I especially liked 'Another wash of light forgets what it is laid on.'
>
>
> Then checked out 'town' in my OED, & yes.
>
>
> Doug
> On 2011-09-13, at 3:53 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>
>> Sky sponged in with exceeding white, softening as it mixes. Scratches
>> in the underlying board brought out by paint running in.
>>
>> Up to the first few degrees above the horizon, it’s brighter than the
>> sea; a solitary boat a single mark in an exposed patch of gesso. There,
>> nothing has changed pictorially, ever, a calm sea a calm sea. Close
>> under the quay, there’s thick shadow broken by an all-white sailing
>> boat.
>>
>> Birds feed on submerging sand.
>>
>>
>> A flaw in the baseboard might be a chain or rope visible through the
>> shallow water. Marker buoys wobble very slightly among the floating
>> gulls.
>>
>> Another wash of light forgets what it is laid on.
>>
>>
>> The sun climbs from towans, highlighting a vertical con-trail radiating
>> from its centre along with cloud ribbon.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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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 ----
>> Lawrence Upton
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
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> Wednesdays'
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> .html
>
>
> People say they have to express their emotions.
> I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach
> you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
>
> Berenice Abbott
>
>
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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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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
----
Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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