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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