'Here it is again': seems to be the modus operandi in this series, Lawrence, & increasingly interesting.
It feels like you also wandered, taking it in from various perspectives...
This comes neatly late, with its commentary...
Doug
On 2011-11-25, at 6:25 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Here it is again, not meaning anything:
> a mob before consciousness; or, even, life --
> a long way back to reach common ancestors.
> This lot, these unstatues, have the whole bar:
> a filled graceful; outline of fallen wings,
> a jigsaw fossil, crashed flight in high storm
> awaiting rearrangement. Strong waves push
> into the concave barrier, quite heedless.
> Nothing is thinking about any of them,
> except the artist, another odd thing-pile-up,
> too many abstract nouns in coordination
> trying to sense more than senses can tell,
> making a big assumption as to purposes.
>
> A glint of self-awareness on a January day,
> one man who cannot see himself, fantasising
> an archetypal activity with pen
> and notebook, both more than his strength to make,
> his only power a mode of quite brutish false;
> a mind which sleeps too often between meals,
> its body crumbling, its hope failing fast.
>
> There are others here, most of them unseen,
> hunting and killing each other, breeding
> in plenty, more food, more opportunity
> among the non-dead stuff plentifully scattered
> with organic audacities and their future soil.
>
> Often the sea collates the rocks by size;
> but here is confusion, needing further tides
> to sort them, should that be wanted… or not.
> They will be turned about. Now, a pterodactyl.
> Another day, a meccano helicopter.
> Most times words will not encompass it all
> and one photographs or draws or leaves it be.
> This activity is dumb trespass,
> unlikely to succeed to be of use.
> A crab strays from rock shadow. Birds tear it.
>
>
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