Saturday, 29 June 2019

Concourse

Discourse is flighty and faltering on the concourse.
Intercourse variously memory for those decently at present
Crossing the concourse. ‘Of course’ comes to mind for all those
Moving from their A to Z where concourse intersects.
Off course is location for many a visitor turning their map round,
Consulting their screen, staring at destinations in golden lights.
Someone left their myki at home. One hundred years later
Spencer Street went Europe.  Gone, wind-blown platforms,
Tin tray cafeteria and poky new-stands. Gone, tunnel warrens
And the mural hall Age of Steam and Locomotion.
Terrorism contributes a sculptural oddity [concrete] [cubes]
To smooth bluestone concourse, glass walls, wavy ceiling.
No man in a van shall mount the trim kerb and accelerate
Fast forward at city’s odd mixture of crowds.

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