Suppressing yawns o’er my lavender city
Awash with a glower of morning freeze
Heaven bends, embracing the receding tide
Its stole of angora settles soothingly above Coal Harbour
About the inlets and sounds
Absconding the waters’ mountains
Stripped steeples lift twiggished limbs
Stark outlines against the winter-white sky
Such a long line of weepers
Sometimes you might think
These buildings weren’t moving at all
Hunkered down amidst cinderblock beds
Seemingly cemented shockingly still
But when noon skies skim somber
Maudlin clumps of crisp slate
Below the Lions and rain come down
Shimmy up the sidewalk glens
Melt a bit to slide and glide west
Darker and darkened yet
Skies bleed as the sun sets and rests
Flags on pavement, as gaffs drip silent songs
A pattern-less patter through tattered awnings –
These mere spots of green ‘mongst grey
Whilst stony gryphons nod to passer-bys anon
Just awaiting the limen, that forgotten positive
But nay-sayers prosper ever
And the spineless do yet live anon…
