#2045 - a rattle and a lunge

 

2045

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6.viii.25   

a rattle and a lunge

ekphrastic for Frank Hinder’s 1948 ‘Tram Kaleidoscope’

 

hats dissolved

the city headshook

 

no one knows why

we are in the machine

 

ploughs on

an overlap doppelgang

 

light thrown from windows

pastel distribution

 

as if a somewhere sun

some mist

 

shadows, fast cars

wheels of a stripe

 

that’s capital

here’s labour

 

the cast of shadows

faces averaged out

 

all gone to be here

to be gone

 

the buildings behind

a further outpouring

 

towards the point drawn

automation ghoulish

 

holding on for grim, beyond

so the crowd presses on