Windless

It is an encouraging light

Through all eleven windows

In the main it is quiet

Construction at lunch

Factories at lunch

Traffic stilled by time

It is easier without projections

Listen to the absent tick-tock

All of love, all of care

Gives a renewal of energies

Browse the poets and the artists

Who each strive to bring beauty

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Hermitage II & Canal Side

Listen

The chink of china

Informal conversation

A European City

Out for afternoon tea

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Restrained

Without of understanding

Unsure of belief

In ones own thoughts

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Roberto + Hermitage

Before the stillness

Among the crazy time

Bound, by papermache

The gluepot

And the paste brush

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In search of one

A symphony of simple

Cool, calm

Of a tradition

To dream

Of all but silence

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Water & Cobra

River boat

Down beside the flat lands

And the bicycle palaces

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A place to become unsettled

Legs turn, unsteady

Humans, with the voices of birds

Fires, pyres, as screened by poets

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Absence

Little girl, sat by her mother

Sips ice cream soda

Through a straw

Today her father

Is elsewhere

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