#2010 - a street through thick glasses

 

2010

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a street through thick glasses

ekphrastic for Henry Kondracki’s 1991 ‘Old Man’

 

here’s the picture of time now gone

 

a bottle blur

street to be crossed

 

pale florid

the underhat

 

all ears, more nose

by habit of another age

 

towards a punt

you never know

 

so the neck noose raggedy

 

an almost ampelman

almost with a will

 

names fade where the numbers remain

 

it’s a day for funny hats

it’s every day further along

 

a street takes all this in  

 

nor are words required