It's quite beautiful, Dominic, but it is still saturated with Geoffrey
Hill, beautifully phrased and cadenced, but in pure tones of waxed
Bromsgrovian.
On 22 January 2012 23:43, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Gothic as gnostic: the down-
> slanting taint of light
> speckling the inert stone
>
> a vast concretion
> torn within itself
> is it the great heart
>
> of the people
> that so entertains
> saturnalia and alleluia
>
> alloys exquisite judgement, unkempt
> earthly mercy, all in its own time
>
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