Truck

Tregurnow Cliff, Lamorna

red mesh fence

                                      big hole

granite falls into itself

sea under

 sings Boom!

St Ives, looking down from Barnoon

                   mossed    

rooves                           angle

          juggling              

at sea's bound   a gull scatter

dry boats below quays

near St Erth

old fox by a hedge

coke can hung on a twig end

hub cap in ivy

West Penwith

old road straight ahead

trees gather in unused fields

cross-looking buzzard

Gulval house landscape

wasp in the curtains

fish moving in dark pond silt

oak leaves quite brittle

near Quarry Hill

old pond            grasses     CAT

GREEN IDEA hops frantically

pursuit without name

by Trendrine Hill

gate smashed

in rust;

under bracken,

wood flowers;

wind song;

water howl

west of Trewallard

buried in air

voice calloused

hope out of range

confined alert

stone depth deadening

beneath our feet

bad acoustic

and abandoned

manned machine

to be is to work

brain's the engine

housing echoes

the skull is deaf

connects the neck

bone. execute.

information

loops the highway

with emptiness

a noose choking

the nous with clattering

readback

buried in air, just the head knows aether

Water’s edge

Gravity and water contend quietly

A boat offshore has no constant shape,

swaying on the world’s breath, exo-

skeletal, chesty.

                             The tide’s incoming

It turned now

                             far calling

its return out of depth

and on earth there was silence for the space of about half an hour

Penwith

land made manscape

randomised topology

pressuring to shrug out from

under man

                made landscape

at Lelant Saltings

at this point, for now,

inherently inter-tidal

on a gantry      over saltings

                     and behind,      few works really grounded

a causeway,

a motorway on stilts,

a railway, the same,

unstopping cars

and few pedestrians

all rush

one sees the fallacy of land…

which is afloat   if   imperceptibly

the flood

transforms that which it releases

realises that which it retakes

assurance of inconstancy

resistance

       every false an equalising         and apposite motion

there being no here

and here being's beings' fantasy

                                                                   and basis

                             one leaves                   to walk on

moving surfaces

                   surfaces of movement

                             a sedimentary persistence

                   coming together           of particles

          and waves                    gathering the sediments

                   the gravity of situation

sentimental

                                                                                      spent

                                      flushed

                             before they harden

                                                hence the hard clear eyes

                                      of fish and birds

                                                                             hear

                                                                                      today

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Lawrence Upton. UK-born artist poet, currently based Greater London.  Poet, editor, curator. Works in a range of media in the intermedia between poetry, music and graphic art.

Main publications in print:-

unframed pictures, Writers Forum, UK, 2011

Pictures, Cartoon Strips, Sound & Language, USA, 2011

a song and a film, Veer Publications, UK, 2009

Water lines and other poems, Chalk Editions, USA, 2009 [e-book]

Snapshots and video, Writers Forum, UK, 2009

Scat Songs on a text by Chris Funkhouser, Xexoxial Editions, USA, 2008

Wire Sculptures, Reality Street Editions, UK, 2000

Word Score Utterance Choreography in verbal and visual poetry, (co-editor) Writers Forum, UK, 1998 with Bob Cobbing

Books-in-progress and unpublished books: Memory Fictions, Elidius on Ennor, Landscapes, Guise, Next door and Portraits

Recent / forthcoming performances and / or collaborations with John Levack Drever, Benedict Taylor, Tina Bass, Wilton Azevedo, Guy Begbie

Has exhibited, solo and collabratively during last year at James Taylor Gallery, London; ICA, London; e-poetry 2011, Buffalo, USA; Visual Research Centre, Dundee; Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh; Moray Art Centre, Moray; UWE Special Collections, Bristol & shortly shows at Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and UBGallery, Buffalo.