Intriguing shifts between the concrete & abstract, Lawrence. Especially in the final couplet.
Doug
On 2011-09-07, at 11:37 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> A massive boy loud
> on the edge of a table.
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> Large and ruinous.
> Not many people.
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> He has made up his mind,
> trusting to fabrication,
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> fiddling with the right moment,
> hysteria transforming itself.
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> Charred bone of consciousness.
> Reverberation of his own muttering.
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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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