Architecture, by Charlie Brice

Architecture, by Paul Klee (Switzerland) 1923

Architecture

Captured by the sullen night the building
speaks with sporadic light that leaks
from offices deserted for the nonce
as if devastated by blight. Empty
and enclosed by lonely coffers
steel and concrete towers wait
for dawn and business hours.

Charlie Brice
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Charlie Brice is the winner of the 2020 Field Guide Magazine Poetry Contest and is the author of Flashcuts Out of Chaos (2016), Mnemosyne’s Hand (2018), An Accident of Blood (2019), and The Broad Grin of Eternity (forthcoming), all from WordTech Editions. His poetry has been nominated for the Best of Net anthology and twice for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Atlanta Review, Chiron Review, Plainsongs, I-70 Review, The Sunlight Press, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere.
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