<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351231" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On a Drawing by Charles Tomlinson</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By a swath of inks the eye<br>thinks it sees solidities<br>which alter with the watercolor<br>way his brush washes its dye</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in distance, though even this<br>finds a faraway fixed not<br>by the surveyor's plumb but<br>by the action of the thumb</div><div style="margin:10px 0">delaying all the fingers meant<br>to draw out of the paper,<br>splashed dry. The clean grain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">catches what it should retain<br>if enough pressure pleasure<br>is applied to the stain to lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Note: Tomlinson is not only a distinctive poet, but a visual artist of repute. His graphics grace the covers of many of his books. This Homage attempts to imitate his verse style, or rather one of his verse styles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bill+Knott">Bill Knott</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351231" data-title="On a Drawing by Charles Tomlinson de Bill Knott" data-description="By a swath of inks the eye thinks it sees solidities which alter with the watercolor way his brush washes its dye in distance, though even this finds a faraway fixed not by the surveyor's plumb but by the action of the thumb delaying all the fin..."></div> </div> </div>

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