#896 - a cardboard favela

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ekphrastic for Aquilizan Studio (Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan)

 

someone was always here

someone came along

 

colours of a flag

and as a machine grows wings

 

fashion with scissors

a tree

now glue

a little fiddling

 

here’s mosque and stairs

the chicken on stilts

 

old signage sinks

in a domino tremble

 

here’s a cardboard tap and guitar

there is paper water

 

churches and walls of a face

in a cave

 

ships

sunglasses

chimneys of light

 

town grew from a star

and still falling today

 

skewers and flowers stood

so many floors

 

time has finished with us all here

this is the story of how

 

here you see

what we can afford

 

a cardboard Magellan

worlds without end

 

just as if

arrived