Light

 

Starlight bitumen its quartz sparks take you

Past daisy rings trigger forced into thousands

Out to white paths sunstroked magnesium

And houses evening will give some relief.

Freeways shine silver, billboards square heat off

Advertise products with martian allure

Belied by strollers bright lit by sunshine you

Wear yourself, skin tense with perspire sheen.

Shopping trolleys glint all over carparks

Where you step from the sky toward arcades -

Multiverses, outside invisible, inside

Glisten window bursts, sales pitch auroras.

In the chandelier shop an astronaut you

Checks meters for the right level of glow.

 

Photograph by B. Harvey taken in April 2015