The Lafayette Building Seen from Eden Quay - after Meryon

 

                                                                               

                                                                      

The Lafayette Building,

As Seen from Eden Quay

After Meryon

 

 

Bridge of Be-ing, all arches mirrrored upon

The river running – Heraclitean ;

Looming above… turrets trumpeting,

All Barnonial excess, pure 19th century.

 

And aligned in sheer proximity the great monolith

Of glass and concrete, its emphasis

Presenting a sheer 20th century existentialism.

Seen from the quays, its pure Baudelaire!

 

The candelabara of Street lamps whose

Illuminating auras burnish the passerby,

Ghosting them with their luminance and lustre.

 

Fate drops like a Stone in the water

Troubling the stillness with ripples outward,

And whose faces Flow ever onward into the dark pool.