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8 SIENNA SOLSTICE<br />
OPENING IMAGE<br />
Robert Fanning<br />
—after Arve Henriksen<br />
Even Spring’s early work: operose—<br />
throat-stuck.<br />
Dull light<br />
through shattered green<br />
windows of a long-abandoned factory<br />
in a winter city<br />
no-one visits—<br />
a column of sleet<br />
falls through<br />
a hole in the roof<br />
—a slate grey sky.<br />
Something flaps up above<br />
the rusted beams and pillars, broken<br />
chain links, massive iron hooks<br />
on frayed ropes and cables—<br />
everywhere, ghost music<br />
of machines<br />
that once held everything together.<br />
When she comes,<br />
dragging her yellow gown<br />
across grit and glass,<br />
across tufts of feathers and shit—<br />
her voice crackles —at first—<br />
a muted trumpet<br />
in the mist<br />
before throwing herself<br />
open— her impromptu aria<br />
a wide beacon sweeping<br />
over the stone avenues,<br />
the empty city.
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