I Wish This Place

Sand has formed itself to shell

Impossibility within which to dwell

Good luck, fair weather, another year

For the place that stays on here

My wish is more selfish than that

I want to take it, wrap it up

I pick up the corners of loose bricks

And fold them slowly, light as air

I slip the windows into my bag

And into my pocket goes the door

I find a compass of zigzag tracks

A ballet of heavy machinery

Scaffolding falls into a telescope

Now thin lines are holding up the sky

I wish this place well, and I wish it ill

But it takes off alone, and I haven’t the will

Construction/Deconstruction

A response to this month's photo theme of Construction/Deconstruction from the Democratic Camera Club here in Edinburgh. Here is its new website and you can follow on twitter @DCC_Edinburgh.

Pictures taken at Quartermile in Edinburgh. I find buildings are often most attractive whilst they are still in the state of construction. As for deconstruction, I got quite excited that there were so many forms and guises this Meccano-like structure could become through the lens. 

Thanks to Nick Haynes for this month's theme.