urban fragments - for kim (1)

Kim offered me 3 photographs of urban fragments. I gave her 3 fragments back. Here is her post about the first.

listen carefully through your lens
the city’s concrete parapraxes
its slips of a rusty tongue
its sly evasions when put to the question

you can’t get a straight answer out of the city
you read its map statement again
combing over the misremembered debris
until you find a path through the rubble

a lead in the case
some lead from the windows
are you hungry?
in need of entertainment?

then follow the corroded path
up through the air vents
past the fire escape and insulation
into the tainted daylight

the city won’t budge

The other 2 fragments can be found here and here.
Their audio kin are here, here & here.