Thursday, April 6, 2023

Remnant of an Empire

 

Pool of water

you pick beauty, like an apple,

from this panoply


and set it there,

a fragment from a canvas

lying in the gutter.


I look down 

on The Four Courts

austere and grand


like Ozymandias,

“sneer of cold command”

half sunk in the sand;


remnant of an empire

shivering

in an April breeze.

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