Showing posts with label Concourse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Concourse. Show all posts

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.

Friday, 2 December 2016

Concourse (December)



December accepts its weaves of workers, casually industrious. Scumble of cloud over the slapped-up stadium could be rain. But the bee-lines return to more online paperwork: it pays. Badging protests against aloneness and bread-and-circus posters won’t last a week, forlorn imitators of glowing advertising inside cafes’ inset TVs. Railway heavies stand around a Myki freeloader, write down the same old story, touching in its way. The city’s towers stand anonymous as the man in the grey flannel suit. Peak performance non-stops, greenly indicates another day. It’s why railings shine, why orange teams are quick to repair a broken down escalator.