Tags
1970s, 1980s, 2015, alley, architecture, awning, buildings, chimney, city, colour, Daredevil, dark, dawn, drawing, Edward Hopper, form, Frank Miller, ground, hearing, height, identity, landscape, leisure, listening, litter, notice, orange, rain, rooftops, seeing, shops, silhouette, sitting, snow, sound, streetlight, streets, suburbia, tarmac, vertical
now, the verticals go down as well as they go up
the form of
architecture
is drawn
by rain
streetlights
merely cast
the silhouettes
of dawn
in the 70s
and the 80s
the shops
opened late
like Hopper
landscapes
foretending
leisure
sleet down
an alley when
there are things
to be done
(cab waiting
with the meter
running) but
when it snows
it is time to sit
on a ledge and
listen to all the
muffled sound
below; lighted
billboards and
the uplit facades
of monoliths
above the
chimney stacks,
only when
sprung from
girders can you
hang foetus-like
above the roof-
tops; let all the
striving height
recede back
to the ground
it stands from
assassins and
bounty hunters
proceed colourful
and silent by the
dark rooftops
of old town
suburbia, only
the blind devils
leap the burning
awnings more
bright than day,
where only one
will notice from
the street, and
yet the fantastic
storeys of
orange-corporate
building rise
ineluctable
behind all
borough, seen
but not heard;
except for the
litter of paper
trailing the collateral
dance across tarmac
and paviours, hardly
noticed, but ever indulged
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
architecture wormhole: House by the Railroad, 1925
buildings wormhole: dream 260815
chimney wormhole: silhouette: // second / thoughts
city wormhole: Morning in a City, 1944
Daredvil wormhole: tag cloud poem V – draft-ness
dawn & orange wormhole: gre[wh]y / has Daddy left us?
Edward Hopper wormhole: Summertime, 1943
identity & streets wormhole: ‘from under the awning …’
rain wormhole: open window
rooftops wormhole: House by the Railroad, 1925
seeing & sound wormhole: after all?
shops wormhole: that comicbookshop in dreams,
silhouette wormhole: 1959
sitting wormhole: Ashdown Forest / 080213 14:47
snow wormhole: To my Mum
streetlight wormhole: the / very gradual art of sitting
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