tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6141715446366620280..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: ChromaticUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54668485580445896672009-12-16T06:24:25.870-08:002009-12-16T06:24:25.870-08:00Thank you Zeph, it's the only time I've ev...Thank you Zeph, it's the only time I've ever attempted this bilingual trick. What is it about French that allows one to say things like this and (almost) get away with it?<br /><br />The film and the memory have converged in my mind. A while back there were rumours of a print existing in the possession of a fellow living back east amid the snows of Maine (not quite Gauguin country). We could not track it down however.<br /><br />But I do still have the memory. And of course the filmstar has her own memory too, though that remains an area whereof I may not know, therefore may not speak.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76246173118673689892009-12-15T15:23:11.582-08:002009-12-15T15:23:11.582-08:00Very lovely poem, Tom, I like the interplay of sou...Very lovely poem, Tom, I like the interplay of sounds in the two languages and the recurrence of black and dark among the colours.<br /><br />Films preserve an image, but the memory can do it even better...Zephirinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02809525772159756122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33637184375215083382009-12-02T08:25:18.793-08:002009-12-02T08:25:18.793-08:00thanks tom, another light this morning (another mo...thanks tom, another light this morning (another morning). . . .<br /><br />12.2<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />top of ridge, motion of shadowed leaves<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> side of charged part, that<br /> in other cases space<br /><br /> causes another event, that<br /> point, in this light<br /><br />line of white cloud to the left of point,<br />tree-lined green of ridge across from it<br /><br /><br />steveSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34523069281998724182009-12-02T06:21:21.013-08:002009-12-02T06:21:21.013-08:00Steve,
Sweet lines again; something very lovely i...Steve,<br /><br />Sweet lines again; something very lovely in the disciplines of the iterative and the incremental. Thank you once more for putting some morning "light in the picture".TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17914462128356836572009-12-01T07:24:48.993-08:002009-12-01T07:24:48.993-08:00Tom,
two beautiful poems, four beautiful pictures ...Tom,<br />two beautiful poems, four beautiful pictures -- what a way to start the day (thanks).<br /><br />Here is my start --<br /><br />12.1 <br /><br />red-orange of sky behind still blackness<br />of trees, silver of planet beside branch<br />in foreground, sound of waves in channel<br /><br /> that still, more than ever<br /> is an event which is<br /><br /> light in the picture, even<br /> as it looks, in this<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />shadowed green canyon of ridge above it<br /><br />SteveSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com