Dear Doug
On Fri, November 25, 2011 15:33, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> 'Here it is again': seems to be the modus operandi in this series,
> Lawrence, & increasingly interesting.
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> It feels like you also wandered, taking it in from various
> perspectives...
I often do but I try to stick at one place
Peter Lanyon flying his glider over places before painting them
> This comes neatly late, with its commentary...
I have a note but not to hand -- latter half of the first decade, nearer
now than the start
I stopped living in St Ives 2006 and slowly but steadily turned my
concentration on Scilly, purely out of the economics of it
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> Doug
> On 2011-11-25, at 6:25 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
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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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