online: 6 september 2012 modified: 3, 6 september 2012 3 september 2012 cloudy unset (sunset)
over lindon (London)
i had forgotten to bring my spectacles and could barely see the keyboard of the touch sceen... and this is the result... when read aloud it becomes a kind of sound poetry... (a translation into normal spelling appears below):
.theevening is. cool tje clouds are pink and grey... the sun itself is abouy 100 degrees anpvre the horizpn... and shining cdirectly thtough mist bfrteeenjotizonysl dttrskddd of gtry blur cloid... and sll seems sti ll snd quiet imm thre ciyy now ss i sit st ss on a hilldide looking eedt ot r noryjeedt ...
thesun is now shinhg thtough clearer air as it appears to descend towards the trisgeway the ptehisytoric. track acvtross thr hills afroundf nw london...
vow sudddenly it dhined brightly and tjrr imtensr light fazxled anbdb cadts dhsdoeds ebrryewhere...
now tje sun is cose to the horizon anfd the sky is full of vapoir yttails and long streaky white cloufs reminding me of thrre of john s paintingd of clousscapeds at thrre yytime of htje battle of britaim im waadas iy 1"9400 wiyth impodsibly contortedclouds shapes that surr. wereclose to ss he saw them
and nowhavimh writteb n tis withoitglssssses and by psrtly trmbering the keunpstd og thif touvvh screen i yutm to amfvthr sun fidsppesrds in schslo of hrtrfd modt brnrsyj otsngrrrr clouds
edited version in normal spelling [wih some guessed words and added words in square brackets] and some words i could not translate:
...the evening is cool the clouds are pink and grey... the sun itself is about 100 degrees above the horizon... and shining directly through mist between horizontal [stripes of] of grey-blue cloid... and all seems still and quiet in the city now as i sit still on a hillside looking west at a noryjeedt ...
...the sun is now shining through clearer air as it appears to descend towards the Ridgeway (a prehistoric track across the hills around northwest London)...
...now suddenly it shines brightly and this more intense light dazzles anbdb cadts dhsdoeds everywhere...
...now the sun is close to the horizon and the sky is full of vapour trails and long streaky white clouds reminding me of [Paul Nash's] paintings of cloudscapes at the time of the Battle of Britain (in was it 1940?) with impossibly contorted cloud shapes that were [i suppose] close to as he saw them...
...and now having written this without glasses and by partly remembering the keyboard of the touch screen i turn to amfvthr sun disappears in schslo of hrtrfd mist brnrsyj otsngrrrr clouds...
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