Yes, seen, whole, Lawrence, & then that odd man out memory-scene...
Doug
On 2012-04-25, at 2:30 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Rain has stretched the overhead awnings full,
> bellying them downwards under their loaded weights:
> it glitters and glints upward at a distance,
> fountaining the new thin brightness back into sky
> as if aware of its own appearance –
> long dangly earrings; that sort of show off;
> but it's windy; else there'd still be much cloud;
> and these suspended ponds are rocked, shortly,
> and ripped, splashing on to drying pavement,
> like an old man who is pissing in spats.
>
> -----
> Lawrence Upton
> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
> Goldsmiths, University of London
> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
> ----
>
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