Construction
By: Jennifer Greenwood
Do you know the fabric that they use on building sites?
Sometimes it’s netting
sometimes it’s plastic sheets it can be any colour
coffee, rust, sea green, coral
well, when it blows in the wind
undulating
like ripples after a pebble is thrown into a pond
it’s as beautiful as anything I’ve ever seen
and consistently so
you find it every now and again
unexpected
as you look through a steamed up bus window
that liminal space
where thoughts are often projected
or walk through streets, avoiding puddles
of mucky city water
a rinsing away
and you see the outstretched material
weightless, formless, shapeshifting
even in the rubble of our lives we can find it
it can find us
waving, beckoning, dancing
on a building that is in a process of changing
part way through so beautiful, although it shouldn’t be.
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