Some
Idea of Acceptances &
Rejections of Meanings @
Around A Pendeen Watch
a code-break
er his eyes lit blin
king Morse his lary
nx bleeps lost syl
lables from sub
marines
a sheet of sea set
with ripples' glimmers says
an enemy is
hidden
bee leep eep
beep bleep leap
bee bee leaf bo
peep
and yet
a code br
eaker & poem (a
crow of poem &
a man
-mind's cracker)
fight so
a broken poem
is twitch
ing on a co
ast path its
bits speck
ling sayings am
ong pebbles & dri
ed bracken frag
ments
the poem the code
-breaker wrote
open (closed)
with ene
my eyes
a poem a
code-breaker cr()act
with fight's mind
dies like light
ening's hot
stretched threads be
tween seas & an
vil clouds dies
repea
tedly whilst
a the
code-breaker goes
on knowing his
know
how
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what does the
(a) poem mean
that (or a) sky
means out
west its
bright sculpts
steam (.) to north
purple wedges held
up on horizon by
a rain's jan
gling pi
ano wires (or
smudged bar
-codes paid
out or a
sky-whales baleen
)?
on an o
ther's h
and
Pendeen Watch's lighthome
houses a pulsar's pasts
flashes re
cognitions ig
nites night's
sea lanes its
blinks do its
blinks do they
do mean
each twitch-chip of
bright sent miles
out says a sense
distinct to coast's & ships'
positionings & passings
a sky means
nothing nothing
means the
a / that some / or this
sky
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as one talks to words
as one walks towards
Pendeen Watch its
white walls
though still still
wriggle like shy
ing horses crest
ing tur
quoise thoughts of
hidden whinnies
as one talks a way
as one walks away
from Pendeen Watch to
pass
over a brow bey
ond sand's sense
less collection @ Porth
eras where ra
zor-lies of sh
ip wreck bits cut
sentences' foot
steps into red
wet clauses smok
ing in salt
water
as one stalks a
way away from a
Pendeen Watch's
polished glass gaze
suddenly Bosigran's gran
ite at distance is in
tricate artes ledges & cracks
whilst close
up enough to to
uch a climber's nose
Bosi's granite is
just as intric
ate
there is a book dan
gling from her harn
ess with Bosigran's
routes de
scribed and graded
a sheet of sea st
retched out and be
hind a climber whose
fingers feel mini
aturised distances & gra
vity's concentrates of
place Pen
deen Watch (b)links later to
night a foil crink
les as a
foreign sub
mariner de
cades deep grey
& gaudy as
ideas of a 19
40s thinks of
surf
acing to ob
serve twen
tea-thirst sen
try comm
andos wri
ting poe
ms on Bos
igran ridge as its
granite alphabet rises
from sea's speech
lessness towards
Rosemergy & the hooved
books of belted
Galloways black
hides binding milk
white pages a hiss
of sea's u
n saids sprays
air's blues now
further's north
east read
Zennor's fields filled
with the o
rangey brow
n of diary cows
their pretty
chocalate skulls re
citing Red
grove meaning
less & less a
gain & again
less un
till all m
akes
© Mark Goodwin 2015
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