L seems to have a touch of Gothic or HP Lovecraft here -is it a Sutton
thing? :-)
P silent observer in thickening gloom of a less coherent construct of the
world -of Raynes Park
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From: Lawrence Upton
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 9:29 AM
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Last scenery passes, dissolving
into the spreading dusk, trying now
it might seem, to enforce an entry
to the mind of this silent observer,
a penetration carrying sunlight
or what is left of it, in suspension.
We go on quietly through a thickening gloom
to find our sign-posted destination.
Having arrived, we get out of the car,
separating ourselves from it and the noise
which we make in it on it creaking springs
and other mettle, standing on Earth's surface,
ill-fitting doors banging as we close them
in topographical architectures
of sound, which one might easily ignore
not by inattention but in focus
upon smaller and immediate details
of a less coherent construct of the world
than those which we've dreamt up and used so far
suggestive of a great antiquity
but only from a standpoint localised.
As individuals' movements dominate,
sentimentality may soon suspend.
We walk to our hotel, hearing ourselves
do so in a blinding vista, each watchful,
though not with that much co-ordination,
which could seem impossible without clatter
yet our space is filling with sonic light.
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