Thanks all. Actually, Bill, this is a camera, a huge art diptych photograph/[print hanging on our wall, Millicent, taken by one of those big cameras tat eventually get every bit in focus somehow.. So an attempt at a real ekphrasis…
Doug
> On Aug 1, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Fascinating glimpse, Doug. So the eye camera takes in far more than any
> camera camera?
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 at 5:47 am, Millicent Borges Accardi <
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>> I like the way the enjambment holds the poem together tightly, like a
>> not-so-gentle hand guiding the reader, who seems about to leap off the edge
>> of a cliff into the ocean below.
>>
>>
>> What was the photograph or painting?
>>
>>
>>
>> Mill
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wed, Aug 1, 2018 8:38 am
>> Subject: snap ekphrastic
>>
>> the far horizon
>> hangs there grey
>> & cut off by camera
>> s edge a shade
>> of distance difference
>> caught in perfect focus
>> as below each piece
>> of land sea bridge
>> holds the eye first also
>> focused perfectly
>> till it drops to
>> that lower window
>> vertigo of straight down
>> through girders rails
>> to the always waiting sea
>>
>>
Douglas Barbour
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What you died of,
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