Looking Back – University of Sydney Anthology 2016 – Building by Persephone Fraser
Building by Persephone Fraser
As a siren slides off, like ribbon through fingers,
like smoke breathed out, the heat is near,
and then not. The street is near, and then not.
I hear voices of people beneath the street,
and see the lights across the city, but mine is out and I am quiet.
The walls have been here long before me,
know all the sounds, all the faces.
When the light is out, the night is all around.
When I come home, up the stairs, breathing heavy
the walls breathe to, come close.
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