Transparent Words - Poetry

I watched the sunrise today

Reflected in the many panes of glass skyscrapers

That rise majestic and monolithic like tree covered mountains

That mark the far side of the harbor and form

The crowded skyline that is Hong Kong

 

And in the mirrored mosaic of articulated glass

White clouds slowly drift across blue sky

And dirty white high-rises stand shoulder to shoulder

Back to back and side to side their images mingled

distorted and smudged like an impressionist landscape

 

In the background the green waters of the harbor open

Like a jade vagina before the phallic shapes of glass

Stone and steel that rise wide and erect to penetrate

The morning and hide the green hills and the squalor

Of the run down apartment buildings in mirrored gray