multivoice
expostulations
for S H
“seeking the totality” (1)
1
began blossom wood wall
fragrant
branches outline here
sturdy lighting
devices
accept the space
and space glides
sharply
into cataclysm
faithful huge
white glitters
the town is
austere after glamour
space black
head arriving
flames pervading
watch everything
soft
green on green
red memory
exchanging harmony
drum silent
and after the
music, you're everywhere
supporting
prancing
green by red
questioning
through the
depicted sunshine
gates on every
side
skyline orange
below
trees pierce the
filling municipality
space twinkling
town brilliant
began blossom
memory
exchanging white
into swaying
orange below
vibrating shimmer
red visible
smiling scattering
every hinterland
the which is
unforgettable
white and the
music
flames by green
lost between us
you hear forget
framed memory no
love
between us you
hear you hear you hear you hear you hear
forget
the masts the sea
the sky
gold
jolting trees
impatiently
many in orange and
green
vibrating
all orange below
spun eye
juice spills
tinted carpet
apple riches
no love in memory
red tinted
making
white
amongst gold
swaying
white and soft and
in cars
and in sky
blinks
2
sparse black
is top and crown
lets many in your
once
once desperate
beside a hand
place
between alone is
the gates
dancing from might
where and may it
reverse?
is unforgettable
where soft
jet violent, soft
you, be over
the filling the
past falls dancing
between us
across our skyline
to a man
but the gates
looking quiet
bright and after
3
beat several
sharply arriving
a smelling white
your reverse?
silent quiet
bright
cloud hour
into the day
cloud hour
into the past of
cling
dancing from
tell your people
dreams
unforgettable
where and is
4
pioneers
neighbours into cuts eyes
exhales on tea,
memory
to rage
rubbing where soft
into in far all
when
when all moored
horizon glows flee
gray silver white and the quiet
human a mist
a barely sap
riding
shouting from
memory
bring merchandise
striving
which is
unforgettable
soft you watched
everything
racing the wind
smell and sun
across our skyline
iridescent
space and
somewhere scaling
rapture
tracks vapours
empty harmony
filling the
rhythmic head
all orange ink
violent
(1) “seeking the totality” is a quotation from a revised version
of West Boogie which was published by Masthead magazine edited by
Alison Croggon. West Boogie and the earlier West address
the 1999 total eclipse of the sun, visible as a total eclipse in the west of
Cornwall
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