♠ Poetry Sketches A to D ♠

Detroit (iii) 'manors'

[ASR] Like many cities of wood, Detroit has burned. For many years it was a Halloween tradition.

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Detroit

(iii)

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Garden patches
adorn the abandoned streets
where on Hell Nights past
the fires raged.

Each manor that was spared the flames
and ash stands proud, now tomatoes
grow in well worked soil
loved by the cool of nights and humid days
the warmth that encourages the rage
and cucumbers growth
the okra pods point where yesterday they formed
from brown based ivory petals,

hibiscus blooms where once the city
boomed and busted.

Now gardens grow guarded by the manor's shacks
that dot abandoned lots.

Kåre Enga

catalogue numbers: [162.453]
15 oktober 2005