A Building Code for Jerusalem
The Military Governor of Jerusalem
appoints you to lay the town out to show as foreseen,
picturesque peoples of the tended walkway.
You redesign the scene to fit the watercolours
as the citizens rehearse the civil war.
Using a bowl to design a lathe.
Take thee a tile and pourtray upon it the city
fallen through falls and burials and seas
as the plan for the principal place, where twelve gates
open
To the cross-modal leap, from theories of equity
to three-dimensional things encoding them,
putting ideas in objects where they are safe,
siting the traces of sorrow in a place
where it can be talked round and signed up
called Bethnal Green, from where to lead the band of artisans
to the mullions in the scatter of stone golden cubes
wet-footed in the tiny sheltered valleys.
Using happy objects to make happy people
closed in a cove of years winding out
proofs of themselves.
Repleteness itself follows from repetition,
by self-distributing processes, or,
a wood-block to print the textile of civics from.
Completeness itself follows from each several place
closed with a horizon, the bank that smooths
the anxieties of a whole shed of men
bending the withy and burling the cherrywood.
The admirer casts and catalogues a model
with the ripple of hammer-pats to say "hand-made"
in deception of the desired quality, closing down
the far-fetched and high-minded in Chipping Camden;
this is what everyone took to their home.
If you can embed knowledge in an instrument
Eastern plum cherry and orange colours
Fine waking movements where the hand
instructs the brain.
The new society starting with a beautiful wood
the new mind starting with the authentication of the Orient
the new behaviour starting with the furling of an iron strip
the new country starting with the way you walk
the shedding of unhappiness, practicing a bit each day
Parting the spaces in the cleaned Cotton Suq.
A wash of pure blue as the Armenian potters
cover the Dome of the Rock with new glazed tiles
from mediaeval kilns relined with safe fire.
The assassination
under a roof uplifted by a stern Materials Code.
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