Xanadu

                    auspicious air

barley barracks

                candelabra cacti

                          dilapidated dragonstones

   erstwhile estates

                          four-sided flow

                          gusting globeflowers

                    herbal halls

                          invisible infrastructure

         jade juts

   kublai khan

                       leafy layers

        mongolian marblemeadows

                          nothing now

        overgrown oblongs

            palatial pastures

                                       quiescent quadrangles

        rush ruins

                        stupa shrubs

                 tumbled tilework

 undertakings undone  

 vanished villas

                   weed-choked waterclocks 

              excavated exits

   yet yurts

                         zoomorphic zephyrs

Philip Harvey