arcadia shakes
Notions of the European landscape, suffused with ‘epic’ poetry, superimpose the quietly shaking, volcanic terrain of Tāmaki Makaurau to reveal some weirdly transcendent urban landscapes.
Something epic landscape, incandescent bright
A crescent moon
and flash of burning sun,
Grace this foggy haven,
Slicing through to light, this
our patch of darkened land
And stitch together thoughts of grander time’s,
wanders daily, back and forth,
To wear this worn and deadened path
Dancing light, along a zigzag woven path
Dancing light, along a zigzag woven path
Weaves brightly ribboned line,
To luminesce frozen over time
A dancing firefly romp,
revealed in quaking, shaking motion,
and walk down
these alternating city streets,
across the bones of this emerging land
Alight standing wave, river rapid wind shaking tree
Streaming past, a darkening city block
Early days return, a nostalgic turn of events
Falling blocks, a shaking swarming swirling
Light crossing brightly, dark wood beyond
Fog lights skitter jitter past, mist shrouded pines
Dark clouds gather, lightning opens cracks
A jaunty carriage trots, down long dark forest roads
Light scratch dance, over forest clearing
Lightly wandering a rural idyll, hill town glowing early mist
ghost shimmer
Ahead full of screens, a siren calls
Eternally waiting, for changes to pass
Towering oblique, among some passersby
Transitory profile passing, burns into memory
Downtrodden and sullen, before crossing in lines
Shimmering by, waving bright with sun
Flow gentle space, legs buckle down
Quaking ascending, then gently up towards the light
Hazy moments capture, briefly lost or found
Dancing light, dark sudden fall
A cha cha wobble through street walk doddle
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across time
Crowded together, in time with the lights
Half a message, rendered on black
Message an emptying street, withering feeling
Fractal city signals, developing signs
Amble statuesque among the light, city blocks
Waiting patient, while paths ahead clear
Pausing in time, we check our direction
Menacing towards safety, running light
Stand still, surrounding infinite space
A shaking, quaking, walk a walk crossing
Lugubrious city, walking dissolves into shade
A thrumming beat, on singular feet
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cities limit
The city limits, where active energies stream
Prismatic shake, with squalling wriggles snake
Towering light cascade down stares, or fucked up point of blinding impact
Ribbon race, down deep walled arroyo
Polygon vibrations, the resident energy gathers
Signal flare rising, light rains down
Sun blast enclosure, city skies to keep
Lean a city block, skirmish action below
Figure seeks, a dark tower sleeps
Dark limits, the outer rim
Inland avenue shaking, a tracing line of coast
Racing stripe, the galloping breath
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