Spring 07 (draft)

Ducts moved air from beneath or moved air from above,
or from the sides of buildings, or from beneath the awnings.
Rail-cars roared beneath the buildings, stopped and roared again.
The awnings of the shops bellied with wind as if they were sails,
and the banners that drooped from the sides of the buildings
were floodlit and also bellied from the winds underneath them.

And the winds were compressed to an even greater pressure
by the narrowness of the mazes through which the wind had to pass
on their way to the sea -- or were they passing from the open sea?
Were the ducts pushing air underground, or from the ground?
And in which directions were the banners bellying with wind?

How was the traffic? Traffic roared later in the evening.
The winds from the air-ducts roared along with the traffic.
The underground was made of money, the cost of location
passed to the customer. The gold necklace on the velvet-lined collar
is from the underground also. The maze between the buildings
straitens until the wind gains greater pressure, until it howls.