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L Gosh smashing stuff!! -towan is sand?sandy debris?? -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton Sent: 01 December 2011 12:23 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: The bar between The Gugh and St Agnes seen from St Agnes A wide backslash brushstroke of sea-rubble, mostly but not all grey, from the halfway, east to west, to a midpoint and a bit over the top of the sand, going south to north. It zigzags, from the upstroke's end in three nearly horizontal stripes like a jerky blind unfolding towards Agnes, dangling just more than the hurl of a large stone from the ramp down to the water-smoothed towan on which a dog cuts deep calligraphies with assiduous enthusiasm, pausing suddenly, one paw held about to flick sand backwards over the granite-specked surface otherwise uninscribed. Soon the waves' ideogram will go under retelling sea once more. The dog will be away long since, eating or sleeping or digging something elsewhere, scratching the story of its inner life, not knowing it is possible to read back what we have written; and unaware that marks represent the noise of mouths if we believe it's so and work at it. Once more the churn and its loose material shall work at dry expressions of themselves. ----- UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4 wfuk.org.uk/blog ----