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The Crystal Palace, London, 1871
deep eaves in Sydenham the
chimney stacks raised high
to draw the draft – splendid
in counter – front-garden shrubbery
left tangled to riot and dampened
from autumn, seems stuck in
foreboding brown conflagration;
the clean stroke of streetlamp
under sandened sky will not
be sullied by slimey gas until
after dark – controlled, controlled blue –
but, we read in the right direction:
look, the flag from some
turgic land of the Empire swaves
away from its pole – the dirty
heavens cry – the dwarfed
chimneys, here, their smoke of
coke and belch drift
in the same direction conjuring
transparent edifice where mens’
seriousness loom in smudged
silhouette, foreboding to behold,
and others scuttle about the
bright, wide street coming
and crossing in all direction –
pushchairs and carriages to hold
The Crystal Palace, London, 1871 by Camille Pissaro
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autumn wormhole: La Route de Louveciennes, 1870
blue & society & streets wormhole: on facing the Have
brown & wind wormhole: SPRING AND ALL I by William Carlos Williams
garden wormhole: Lapping Reflections [Deep Within Waters] – pageant of the trees
London & sky wormhole: London, 1809
passing wormhole: SPRING AND ALL XI by William Carlos Williams
people wormhole: only
reading wormhole: early // Minoan & Mycenaean Exhibitions in the British Museum – diptych
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