"Nocturne"
an excerpt from the canvas of František Hudeček's Park at Night (1943)
from the Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art
On a solo stroll
- inner city tour -
what plays tonight
in a park haunted without people
like trunks missing limbs
where the rolling green
is no longer inviting
breaking camp
into concentrations
of decapitated
grave plots
decked out of season
with tube lighting
on the edges crawling
like diamondbacks in barbed metallic glow.
The only thing above ground
is a fixed
spot
light
bearing witness
and even that remotely resembles
a showerhead
over trees
down on their roots
begging in a wanton recreational.
© 2007 Michael Virga
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