Spirit - 10

The new "Spirit of Endurance"

All gone, replaced by a concrete slab, February 2004


Heterodox

Cement surrounds the sea
    and lurks on the horizon
        and splits apart my knees.
Such a flat, square and grey environ,
a cubic dream,
rationally numerical,
and so geometrically serene:
how can I,
flesh and barely symmetrical,
fit into this scheme ?
 

Gordon J. Ross
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1971