(Winner of the MK Lit Fest 2024 Poetry Competition)
~
my
city of glass lies
secluded in plain sight,
hiding its avaricious persona
camouflaged behind mirrored
refractions and reflections,
my
cuckoo conurbation,
robber baron village devourer
slick consumer of consumers
pell-mell human spa, or
hypno-magnetic Shangri-La,
my
casino of communities
entombed in mummified modernism
preserved under a fickle lens
a confused composite DNA
more helter-skelter
than helicoid
my
grid mat arterial entity,
that bleeds to oil and polish its
brilliant shimmering dermis
a courageously proud
showpiece carapace
by which I am blinded
*
© Graham R Sherwood 04/24
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