<span class='subtitle'>[title]</span><br /><br /> <span class='titletitle'>Absence</span><br /> <span class='subtitle'>the void is tangible</span> <span class="textfont">[scene 1 empty]<br /> Peel away the chrome and mirrored glass<br /> <span class="enlarge2x">reflect </span> upon what was lost</span> <span class="textfont">[scene 2 ordinary]<br /> The memories once attached to this nondescript corner<br /> take on a mythic quality, yellowed like an old <span class="texttitle">print</span> page </span> <span class="textfont">[scene 3 clouded]<br /> how is it so much more <span class="texttitle">vivid <br /> in absence </span>than when lived? </span> <span class="textfont">[scene 4 clamor]<br /> The conglomeration of competing signs, images and lights. <br /> <span class="texttitle">raucous disorder </span>and turbulence <br /> was experienced as </span><span class="texttitle">anarchy</span> <span class="textfont">[scene 5 sanitized]<br /> Now it’s gone, replaced by <span class="texttitle">disinfected tidiness</span><br /> ragged wildness tamed and eccentricity banished</span> <span class="textfont">[scene 6 filter]<br /> <span class="enlarge2x">Memory</span> tries to unlock the dead spaces,<br /> reanimating the rest with an overlay of images <br /> that smoothes away the sharp edges</span> <span class="textfont">[scene 7 vacant]<br /> Alert to occult details, the <span class="texttitle">observant</span> eye<br /> reads the empty space inside the gilded frame <br /> </span> <span class="textfont">[scene 8 obscure]<br /> the story is in the <span class="texttitle"> anonymity</span> of space<br /> modular squares that frame absence<br /> </span> <span class="textfont">[scene 9 crease]<br /> Negative space shaped like a blue steel scalpel<br /> the dark sky parts two <span class="texttitle">monoliths</span><br /> </span> <span class="textfont">[scene 10 inscribe]<br /> no landmarks or distinguishing features interrupt<br /> the repeating lines of perfecty rectangular windows<br /> </span> <span class="textfont">[scene 11 transport]<br /> a few trees, leaves <span class="texttitle">illuminated</span> by uplight<br /> float like small clouds of moss on a sea of glass<br /> </span> <span class="textfont">[scene 12 chiseled]<br /> <span class="texttitle">deepening shadows</span> throw the intricate details <br /> of a random cornice and a foliated column<br /> into precise relief exaggerated by surrounding flatness</span> <span class="textfont">[scene 13 recuse]<br /> <span class="texttitle">ornamentation</span> is a respite from the present<br /> as bits of organic life escape the stone and unfurl before our eyes<br /> </span> <span class="textfont">[scene 14 tunnel]<br /> an antidote to the uniformity of the <span class="texttitle">corridor</span> of office towers,<br /> these lively incidents of animation open a window to the past<br /> </span> <span class="textfont">[scene 15 extend]<br /> such small details yet they read expansively <br /> and push back against the <span class="texttitle">wallpaper</span> of geometry<br /> <br /> </span> <span class="textfont">[scene 16 span]<br /> these graceful framing devices are our <span class="texttitle">relics</span><br /> the eye seeks them out and rests there momentarily<br /> </span> <span class="textfont">[scene 17 glowing]<br /> when the light dims to black, the small squares of light<br /> create a <span class="texttitle">vertical carpet </span>of glowing tiles <br /> to border rectangle of brilliant green grass</span> <span class="textfont">[scene 18 minute]<br /> so many toylike figures dot the backlit lawn<br /> scattered among the <span class="texttitle">wireframed</span> folding chairs<br /></span> <span class="textfont">[scene 19 secluded]<br /> in easy solitude or <span class="texttitle">anomic isolation</span><br /> their rectangle becoming the void within the frame<br /> </span>