Old Wardour Castle |
By: Roger Hansford |
a footstep on the spiral stair
i join the fanning segments
each riser identical, but perilous
at the last: step to infinity
winds assault me in the
great glassless hall: lord
with a licence to crenellate.
real sky now shows
between vaultings.
chinese ideograms, and
‘blame US’ are etched in
the civil war of lichen
a capable circle of cedars
orbits the hexagonal ruin, the
mock-magma grotto
and the lake. i step off
the gyroscope of styles
not the first visitor
to leave impressed
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