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Tag Archives: 1973

mauve

23 Wednesday May 2018

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1973, 2017, 6*, birdsong, blue, buildings, clouds, dusk, gold, hills, horizon, left, lime, mauve, mist, olive, right, sidewalk, sky, Steely Dan, streets, sun, syncopation, white

                                mauve
                                {Your Gold Teeth}

                in 1973
                                waste bins jumped up
                                                syncopated
                                                                all down the sidewalk

                down the street apiece
                                the olive and mist
                                                second-floor horizon
                                                                looked left

                                                                before the hills
                                                sun going down
                                in a Prussian sky
                {West of Hollywood}

                                to the right to the left
                                the bird on the single

                                remaining post called
                                the last lime skeak

                                to white curds above
                                the darkening hills

 


 

 

————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–

blue wormhole: Bridgnorth
buildings wormhole: between
clouds wormhole: all the low clouds keeping pace / through the train window, / always arriving, whether fast or / slow, but never actually moving
gold & sky wormhole: behind / glass walls and wan and hooded eye
hills & mauve wormhole: polystyrene / boulderscape
horizon wormhole: travelling // arrival
lime wormhole: turned backs of saddened victory
mist wormhole: is this it // all the time
olive wormhole: pine // gladioli // [&] wisteria
streets wormhole: coagulating
sun wormhole: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J. Redford – Making Hay
white wormhole: sharpened apex

 

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tag cloud poem I – numbers

03 Monday Feb 2014

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'scape, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1976, 2*, 2014, 20th century, emergence, growth, life, settling, tag cloud poem, years

PREEE-senting: poetry to recite; the bigger the font the louder and more wisely you recite, the smaller the font the more naïvely and compassionately you recite (much like the Prince Regent, George IV, in ‘Blackadder’ when he was being tutored to orate in ‘Sense and Senility’:
‘Ooohhhrraaaghhhh)

 

 

 

 

‘scape                                                                                 

 

 

                                   20th century
                                                      1964 1967 1968
                                                      1971 1973 1976
                                                      1978 1979 1980
                                   1981 1982 1985 1987 1988 1989 1993
                                   1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2004 2007
                                                      2008 2009            2010

 

 

2011

 

 

 

 

                                                      2012

 

 

                                                      2013

 

 

 

————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–

1964 wormhole: Batman 168
1967 wormhole: mlewis diptych
1968 wormhole: 1968
1971 wormhole: new garden
1973 wormhole: August / Adventure
1976 wormhole: 1976
20th century wormhole: the early morning of the sixties
emergence wormhole: Woodbrooke labyrinth / affirmations
life wormhole: Have what, now?
settling wormhole: Child of Illusion
years wormhole: 1965

 

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August / Adventure

24 Monday Jun 2013

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1973, 2011, 5*, black, comics, faces, moon, night, orchid, purple

 

 

 

                           August
                           Adventure

                                                   in 1973
                a black orchid crouched purple before
                     the moon the moon

                                          under her feet stood
                block faces peering out into the night from
                     the room the room

 

 

 

————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
1973 wormhole: The Smoker You Drink The Player You Get (1973) – tribute
black wormhole: man of tomorrow
comics wormhole: there
faces wormhole: Boy
purple wormhole: the bench / on the fourth sister from / Birling Gap before the / wind-brushed scrub and gorse / and the grey-blue sky / smoothed through the / fishtank-blue horizon to / grey-green sea
moon wormhole: how / … // ?
night wormhole: 1976

 

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The Smoker You Drink The Player You Get (1973) – tribute

02 Tuesday Oct 2012

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'scape, 1973, 2012, 5*, America, birds, black, blue, brother, emergence, Genesta Road, glass, hill, Joe Walsh, lamp post, lemon, mist, morning, pine, rain, red, roof, snow, sparrows, streets, The Old Grey Whistle Test, trees, walls, wood

The Smoker You Drink The Player You Get (1973), Joe Walsh & Barnstorm

 

 

 

                      tribute

                      my brother ordered
                      the smoker you drink
                      the player you get by mail
                      all the way from america
                      to genesta road
                      when he was eleven
                      with his pocket money

and brought wooden glass walls and doors   raindrops in wheat stalks      fine chiselled filigree on the stained snuff box      misty plains and misty textures      a furl of mist stealing round the corner by the iron black lamp post into the lemon-blue morning      the anticipation of snow through the full-length frosted-glass door      reaching the top of the hill watching the blue veins through the streets like waves      birdsong twist in the trees somewhere behind the red-tiled roof ridge      wrapped-snare quarter fills      sparrow-call uphill in a pine tree amplified by the whole hill      relaxed rejoinders to the la-la-la la’s strolling over the woods back to the house

                      which didn’t just
                      walk up those steps
                      to the front door
                      by themselves
                      and all because
                      he’d caught a
                      silent glimpse of it
                      on the old grey
                      whistle test

                      I should have paid more attention to him

 

 

 

————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–

1973 wormhole: 1973
birds wormhole: coffee shop
black & wood wormhole: radio
blue wormhole: only
emergence wormhole: 1970 // just now
Genesta Road wormhole: wakey wakey / time to get up
glass wormhole: there
lemon wormhole: portrait
hills wormhole: Bonus Books
lamp-post wormhole: “bring in as many / different kinds of leaf / as you can find”
mist wormhole: ”please me very kind with your practice …’
morning wormhole: ‘8:30 kitchen …’
pine wormhole: ‘under the orange streetlamp the …’
rain wormhole: 11:50 pm
red wormhole: Woolwich Central – / making life better
roof wormhole: looking
snow wormhole: thawing
sparrows wormhole: all at / once
streets wormhole: gotcha
trees wormhole: the Eiffel Tower
walls wormhole: Woolwich Central – / making life better II

 

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1973

17 Thursday May 2012

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'scape, 1973, 2*, 2010, breeze, evening, life, trees, tv, years

 

 

 

                                                              1973

                     late in the evening
                     trees shifted in the breeze outside
                     while peoples’ lives were touched on the tv

 

 

 

————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–

part of >>> years
1973 wormhole: 1973
breeze wormhole: 140 m.p.h.
evening & years wormhole: 1976
life wormhole: ‘determined to drop the / dramas and tragedies / of this life …’
trees wormhole: ‘a tree …’
tv wormhole: tonight

 

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1973

20 Friday Apr 2012

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'scape, 1973, 2004, 4*, black, echo, emergence, green, piano, years

 

 

 

                                   1973

                     under a bottle-
                     green shade lamp
                     on a string doily

                     a lacquered black
                     piano and notes
                     which echo in a
                     dark hangar

                     and

                                   polish

 

 

 

————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–

1973 wormhole: Batworld
black & green wormhole: smell of the / window frames
emergence wormhole: Ramsden Heath
piano wormhole: tabla
years wormhole: 1976

 

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Batworld

23 Wednesday Nov 2011

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1966, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1986, 2011, 5*, Batman, beige, blue, comics, green, growth, pink, sky, yellow

 

 

 

                                                Batworld

                in 1966 Batman was costumed
                in a pink and sky-blue world

                by 1968 he stood on buildings
                under bottle-green skies

                by 1971 he was also hooded
                in the black and yellow 40s

                by 1973 his brow cape and hands
                did the talking

                in 1986 he retired
                and the world filled with beige and traffic

 

 

 

————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–

1968 wormhole: 1968
Batman & comics wormholes: yes
blue wormhole: after the rain / flowers like / cupcakes
green wormhole: 1954
pink wormhole: the window
sky & yellow wormhole: gust of wind

 

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    • askance From Hell
    • Batman
    • Bob 1995-2012
    • David Bowie Movements in Suite Major
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