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2019, 6*, balcony, birth, boats, branches, buildings, canopy, death, distance, east, evening, glass, green, harbour, hills, horizon, hovering, impressionism, Lanzarote, life, midday, mist, morning, people, promenade, sea, streetlamp, sunset, time, trees, trunk, walking, water, west
Puerto del Carmen
to the east
in the morning
the promenade
ended out at the
harbour wall beacon,
occasional impressions
of couples made
their way under
irregular lamps on
their rusting stems with
fragile glass bulbs;
one boat anchored
out at sea, seemed
closer than it was
because the
horizon is always indistinct;
then, here at midday, the
single spindle tree holds
a canopy intricate
of branches and peppered-green
writhe-angled
to the trunk through which
storeys and balconies
can clearly be read;
in the evening to the
west, the further
hills all will hover
for all the distance
that bolts of mists will allow
and for all the show of
lowing sun will preview
blind across the water
straight
at
me
Puerto del Carmen, a stretch, in distance, along the southern coast of Lanzarote, an elongation of time when one is there …
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branches wormhole: YOUNG SYCAMORE by William Carlos Williams
buildings wormhole: intent
death wormhole: Entry to the Village of Voisins, Yvelines, 1872
evening & morning & people wormhole: Vue de Pontoise, 1873
glass & green & sea wormhole: The Atlantic City Convention: 1. THE WAITRESS by William Carlos Williams
hills wormhole: sun setting over a lake, 1840
horizon & life & trees wormhole: Landscape, Pontoise, 1875
mist wormhole: Batman: Oddysey
promenade wormhole: waiting to be heard
time wormhole: I
water wormhole: Fishermen at Sea, 1796
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