Poetry: Geoffrey Long

Written by Geoffrey Long
Tuesday, 01 September 2009 00:00
Geoffrey Long The Florist The flowers are cold on an August morning, so she rests her lips against the petals, exchanging temperatures. The bell over the door will soon ring, and jangle, the businessmen and housewives will besiege her sanctuary, carrying off her children to die in foreign houses, leaving only a jingling of coins as an honorarium. The tiny copper fountain bubbles in the corner. The fans and heater and air conditioners whir and thrum. A slight breeze from somewhere crinkles the cellophane and a row of tiny red bears sit in silent jury. She is tall, and slender, what one might call willowy, she is soft, and gentle, and good with her hands, yet her eyes wear shadows back in their humors, and she spends all her days here, behind the glass. Bilbao Daybreak glitters and gleams off swoops and sworls, Gliding down metal curves, inner child on a slide, Organic silhouette, mechanical ingredients, Technology enabling kindergarten on a massive scale. O Gehry! O Frank! To have witnessed your epiphany, The instant when an aborted sketch lobbed towards the rubbish Caught for a moment the sun in your window. Was it an accident, or a vision, or a hoax, or a dream? What was the shape of your eyes when the lightbulb, as they say, switched on? O Frank! O Gehry! O high priest of millennial form! What will our grandchildren say of your rumpled cathedrals? Will they look on them laughing? Will they sing hymns? Or will they call forth great wrecking balls and blanket the streets With sparkling shattered steel splinters and shards and snowflakes? Nightfall gleams and glitters off sworls and swoops, Sliding down like a curtain across its gentle degrees, Spanish stars reflected in cool, subtle skin, Glints in eyes, knowing winks from old men. Geoffrey Long www.geoffreylong.com Geoffrey Long (www.geoffreylong.com) is a media analyst, scholar, and creative consultant. He is currently conducting research at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, a project of the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His writing has appeared in Polaris, Gothik, Hika, {fray} and Guttergeek, and he is a frequent speaker at conferences including SIGGRAPH, SCMS, the Game Developers Conference, Pictoplasma and FuturePlay. Yareah magazine es una revista cultural fundada y dirigida por el escritor Martín Cid. *Created and edited by the writer Martin Cid.
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