The Poetry Kit MAGAZINE |
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CITN 10 - May 2002 |
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City Skyline by Barbara Phillips the city is all lit up skyscrapers side by side glow like tin lanterns warning rods on rooftops blink red spots as jets stream overhead the waters of the harbour slide waves of slick vinyl shine that lure the shore with soft slaps against concrete walls keeping the lake out and the city in stacks belch ghostly gases under cover of the night as black as the inside of a raven's wing the moon rides in a boat of dove grey gauze misted through with amethyst strands that weave watercolour ponds under the full moon plump as a pampered koi treading water among reeds in a walled-in garden and somewhere not far enough away sirens wail and tear the air
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