In looming shadows

Through man’s steady destruction

The blossom holds fast

Keep working the ground

Building up by digging down

Shiny treasure mound

Old bridges prevai

Road over creek over rail

A tangle of trails

Lights lead us onward

Drawing us toward their gaze

A steady decay

Even reinforced

Castles of blue glass and steel

Can’t provide a nest

Between woodwind notes

Blossom leaves weave twist and float

Riding river boats

When concrete covers

The surface of the whole world

What will we wonder?

Light and water skate

Saturate this city scape

With sodium shades

Seeping from deep cracks

Steam and brimstone boil below

Lift me from what’s mine

If I snap myself

Among cherry blossom mist

Do I shine brighter?

Complex indigo

Turns mindless in the day glow

Unfixed colours run

Dusty trail blazers

Gather in every corner

Ceremony stands