Patterns
Wind whips her hair:
Feels like
Stinging, bristle brushes
On her face,
Defining her in invisible paint.
Coffee long gone cold,
She thinks...
Of the angles of the treads
By the 'Costa Coffee' structure;
The way the water appears
As green as the rarest olive oil...
Bitterly cold;
She watches the brilliance
Cascade in electric currents
Down the gleaming stone steps,
One end - a tangled mass of white light;
The other - a perfect mirror.
The arches of Brindleyplace buildings
New grey-and-terracotta bricks in
The style of the old -
(Of the originals, however -
Not a trace remains.)
She leaves half of her icy coffee;
To be splattered by the wind
In caramel-beige;
Lugging her heavy kit
To "The Water's Edge'...
Where she
Is intrigued
By interplay
Of dark-green rails and columns
She reflects
On how patterns of holes
Like mint 'Aero' chocolate-filling
On dark-green canopies
Exactly match
The theme on the bases;
The subtle patterns on the pavements
In pale madder and warm grey...
And how the 'Hyatt'
Could be a mirage
Or a hologram -
In Ink-grey and pale silver,
Defined in rectangles and squares...
At the end of the day
She has made
A few sketches like dreams
That will later resonate -
With carefully-selected paint.
She becomes aware
She is frozen through;
And packs away her materials;
Slowly walking alongside
The shining, olive-green canal,
On her cold and heavy artist's way.
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