Tags
2011, 7*, alley, attention, Batman, belief, black, blue, buildings, Christmas, city, east, fear, glass, green, guilt, ink, light, marble, marzipan, night, people, planes, purple, river, rooftops, rose, shops, silence, sky, skyline, smile, south, stars, streetlamp, thought, vista, windows, writing
the silent night of the Batman
even while they carried their
gift-wrapped parcels and looked
to each other with smiles of belief
the shop signs hummed dark
against the marbled frontage
while above, quiet floors of
clear-dark windows looked east
looked south in the ink-black sky
enough to write a novel in a
single sitting, enough to hold
a fleet of stars above the skyline
stacking slowly; when the sky
is ink-green the rooftop
gathers ink-blue attention
and leaps without step or
swing through the glass and
ledges of city vista, the lingering
thought to shadow the guilt,
the alley to streetlamp the
fear, and over the river the rose
cast high and wide to the stars until
marzipan fingers reach across the
ink-purple sky and marshmallow lights
go out
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
attention wormhole: looking back over the tack / and jibe of my life I / notice there is / a fetch // after all … / but certainly not / where I had planned / or where I thought / I’d been
Batman: cape and cowl
black wormhole: Cocktails in 1951
blue wormhole: out
buildings & people wormhole: London refugee march – 120915
Christmas & stars wormhole: the silent night of the Batman
city wormhole: city streets
glass wormhole: Mark & Jon at the coffee shop IV: right angles
green & sky & smile wormhole: looking ahead
light wormhole: Plumstead – Woolwich – Plumstead 220211
night & writing wormhole: and // do your ears burn red?
purple wormhole: pine // gladioli // [&] wisteria
river wormhole: glide
rooftops wormhole: low afternoon
shops wormhole: in the Java ‘n’ Jazz
silence wormhole: is this it // all the time
skyline wormhole: clear as vista
thought & windows wormhole: for / the first time
mlewisredford 