Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Friday, 13 July 2018

The City's Gone


Night

The city's gone
In it's place, this grey stone maze, this
locked geometry of shadows, blind and black
and angles hurt into the sky, symmetries breaking
and snapping back into line.
The green Zs of fire-escapes ; criss-
crossing what's left of the light
to a tight mesh.
The buildings close
around a dead-end then
spring open to the new future ; repetition
back-tracking, error, loss

excerpt from
The Long Take
Robin Robertson
2018

image
Stefan Diesel


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