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Pause Hesitate Imagine

How beautiful...............an image suddenly...............conceived an instant..............thought following...............a terminal caesura.................pause hesitation..............or dislocation of attention...........written read by.................a seeing eye or said aloud Columnar style after Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet. Turnbull created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than usual space Turnbull called poems using his device ‘Spaces’, and noted of these ‘The visual “space” is,a pause or hesitation, even a temporary dislocation of attention’ . See my imagist Spaces poetry examples first posted here 2007

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