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The Ordinary City - a rerading for Mike Devereux by Lloyd Godman

The ordinary city walked past in a flash
lost in the mundane context of itself
Insignificant

The intensity of the urbane
Coopted for another purpose
A regulated endorsement of the entanglement of free space
Used for constructions
Acknowledgment of the spatial position reflects backwards
Draws lines in regular patterns to make familiar sahpes

Repetitive
Crowded desolation of the syncopation tangled into a rectangle
Compressed, like sardines until it fits into a tight square
where the tone compresses through lack of light in deep space and all that is left is BLACK
until the play of space in the structure is  separated, sieved  restructured

Optical compression dictates the visuality of
Space divided restructured in the photographic sense
To form a personal vision.

© Lloyd Godman