11 April 2013

Poem 11 - The Architecture of Circle

Photo: Sally Douglas


The Architecture of Circle

When things are made rounded
like theatres and lighthouses
like bathyspheres
like brand-new schools 
where corridors lead you
in most gentle persuasion
like stadia
and Martello towers
like your hand
cupping what you want to keep –

what happens to the spaces that are left?

You and I, we live
in the warm incurvings.
Those peeled-off places
outside the wall
we do not know.
But can you feel them?
The nettles
the ground-down stubs
the choking air?
The space untessellated?

Sally Douglas


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