Thank you -- for the second bit
Re the first I feel as though I have just dropped a big of crockery
It took three goes to get it right and then I got that TWICE. But of
course it may have come out differently for you.
I should have left it and let the verse alone. But...
I created distraction.
But I am glad you got something out of it
L
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Sent:Wed, 7 Nov 2012 09:55:14 -0700
Subject:Re: Sunday from light -- dirty kludge time
Not sure why, Lawrence, as the first one looks the same to me (here).
Interesting how you get a kind of 'scientific' distance through both
language & grammar here...
Doug
On 2012-11-07, at 7:33 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>
> A computer demands why I am sending this again
>
> This is just computers trying to make themselves indispensible
>
> Here we go
>
> I am afraid that the usual method of ensuring there is a line break
> doesnt work - some smart arse computer again
>
> I think the line breaks matter and rather than spending all day
> fiddling with it I have used full stops to force the space
>
> I hope
>
> best to all
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>
>
> L
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> SUNDAY FROM LIGHT
>
> Light burns within the tree outside,
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> brightness entirely of sight flaming
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> from the roughly blown rain-wetted leaves,
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> unquiet fire dazzling eyes;
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> and thus one may have no certainty
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> what kind of tree that is cut round
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> into a standardised profile
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> some time back, like a point of sale
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> pop up. It's grown since with energy
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> and now is loose origami
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> yet almost multiple in time
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> something that makes things visible
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> and affords us illumination.
>
> .
>
> Here, some, in minds already blazing,
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> would join all light to over-shine.
>
> .
>
> Colour depends from light to which
>
> the organs of seeing react: wave
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> corpuscular or else quantum
>
> phenomena... phenomenon.
>
> .
>
> There are similar shapes we can't see.
>
> .
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> I feel it is a sensation
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> produced by organ arousal
>
> rather than a radiance from source.
>
> .
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> This is a most candescent room
>
> .
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> whose state of equilibrium
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> is being disturbed in my vision.
>
> .
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> I become kindled and I change state
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> illuminated when switched on.
>
> .
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> I see myself in some good light.
>
> .
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> I brighten even as rain hits
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> the revelatory windows.
>
> .
>
> Lichter. Wasser. Sonntags-Gruß
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>
>
Douglas Barbour
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