Tabs

Friday, May 18, 2007

Titles and Doppelgangers

Doppelgangers and Titles

Titles

“Call me when you’re sober” music, I try to imagine as it… as notes…as melody…when all I have is its simulacrum or its imitation.

“The Showgirl and the brumby” invokes a dusky image of the perfectly formed flanks of both objects, one in feathered headdress and the other, naked as the night…

“Listen and enjoy German poetry”, creates auditory imaginings of gutteral articulations in a soft female voice…

Without frame of reference, there is only imagining…


Doppelgangers


In new surroundings
Familiar faces appear against the unfamiliar
Recognition and hand raised to wave
Draw back in equal measure
When I realise I do not know them