The letters disappearing was a contribution of the net, dear boy
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On 5 November 2015 at 17:50, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A tonal dissipation of the usual here, Lawrence, that feels almost
> off-putting but keeps pulling back in nevertheless (my feeling reading it).
>
> I think I want more of the losing of letters, that sense of that wind
> taking away such…?
>
> & the soundings you would then be playing in a live reading…?
>
> Doug
> > On Nov 5, 2015, at 6:40 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > *west Cornwall *
> >
> >
> > a gully wind
> >
> > a gull wind a granite haze
> >
> >
> > of these two
> >
> > of these two is made the land one walks upon
> >
> > a space
> >
> > a space holding sea and sky
> >
> > a space holding sea and sky by the corners
> >
> > a space holding sea nd sky at the corners and overlapping
> >
> > and overla ping at inhuman moments
> >
> >
> > one does not comprehend
> >
> > such vacancy one does not feel
> >
> > comes quickness
> >
> > vitality
> >
> > levered life stuck
> >
> >
> > not worth seeing, invisibly small
> >
> > so cannot be seen or
> >
> > if seen
> >
> > wrongly-made for box-shaping brains
> >
> > to know
> >
> >
> > grass air
> >
> > peat walk
> >
> > no one a single one
> >
> > no part reachable without transformation
> >
> > speech and the ground one speaks upon crumbling
> >
> >
> > grand concrete luxury enclosure
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > today's special, not yesterday...
> >
> >
> > wave, soil, sea
> >
> > stretch out wide your crow arms
> >
> >
> > each to her sustentation
> >
> > and each two
> >
> > and more than two
> >
> > and much more than many
> >
> >
> > take things
> >
> > dynamic hand holds
> >
> > and pull them
> >
> > not to unravel it all though that's possible
> >
> > not to unravel though that's possible
> >
> > but to track and reshape to make lovable
> >
> > but to track and r shape to make lovable
> >
> > an incommensurate geometry
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Done in by creation itself.
>
> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>
> Robert Kroetsch.
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