Monday, July 22, 2019

They Don’t Build Cathedrals Anymore

Out of town
we are but strangers in a strange land
with homeless dust drying in our mouths
and disappointment etched 
like claw scars down our cheeks.
Almost horror struck we stared
from behind barbed wire fences
as oxide red skeletons stretched 
up into the cod-scaled greyness. 

Two cranes take to the dance floor 
performing a slow motion tango. 
The beat of blueprints 
synchronizes their movements; 
arms swing angular, all brute force and sweat.

As wonderment pushed grit from our eyes 
we stood 
like corner shop natives
waiting for that moment
when the glass dome was to be set
like a diamond.  We gasped at the thought
that automatic doors would welcome us inside 
to walk upon the marbled floors, 
and to listen to the chorus of cash tills singing: 
“Hallelujah” 
as they exchange all our prayed for dreams 
with credit card receipts; consumer redemption 
available 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., even on Sundays.  

For now we have seen the light, 
nine out of ten of us agree, you have to buy icons
to obtain retail spirituality.


© 2006  P.A.Levy
First published by Social-i  2010 

Wednesday, July 3, 2019


 iAmbient 

last night 
i fell in love 
with the aphex twin
and i felt the full emotion
of bleeps
and little squiggle noises

as a chord
i collected all the passion laced 
expired breaths 
tokens 
for the dream archive 
in the cupboard
(keepsakes 
of special shiny things
a pressed dead daisy chain
a button 
a kinder toy
old cinema tickets
the kiss i always wanted
from before we met)

last night i fell in love with
you
as you moved inside me
slowly
so 
exquisitely slow 
to goosebump my 
skin 

when we 
laid down 
with the aphex 
twin

©2008 iDrew
First published by 2010