sand hill, Patrick
these are very small here
along the north cornish coast they become massive
st -- if my memory serves - uny's church at lelant was moved in the 14th
century to get away from them
and there are whole buildings under the towans in some places
eventually turns into stone, I suppose, well it is stone but I mean stone
stone
glad you like it
L
On Thu, December 1, 2011 12:36, Patrick McManus wrote:
> L Gosh smashing stuff!! -towan is sand?sandy debris??
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> Subject: The bar between The Gugh and St Agnes seen from St Agnes
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> A wide backslash brushstroke of sea-rubble,
> mostly but not all grey, from the halfway, east to west, to a midpoint and
> a bit over the top of the sand, going south to north. It zigzags, from the
> upstroke's end in three nearly horizontal stripes like a jerky blind
> unfolding towards Agnes, dangling just more than the hurl of a large stone
> from the ramp down to the water-smoothed towan on which a dog cuts deep
> calligraphies with assiduous enthusiasm, pausing suddenly, one paw held
> about to flick sand backwards over the granite-specked surface otherwise
> uninscribed. Soon the waves' ideogram will go under retelling sea once
> more. The dog will be away long since, eating
> or sleeping or digging something elsewhere, scratching the story of its
> inner life, not knowing it is possible to read back what we have written;
> and unaware that marks represent the noise of mouths if we believe it's so
> and work at it. Once more the churn and its loose material
> shall work at dry expressions of themselves.
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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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