Rise Up (After Thorma) The old buildings witness the revolution in the square. They retain their style, some pull it tightly around them for the future. What of the slush-covered paving stones which connect them? Stamped by the angry, the jubilant, the speech-listeners, the rabble roused. The old buildings hold aloft the dignity in remembrance, in the knowledge that outcomes are a fair market, unpredictable, that only time consecrates, and they hold much of that in their pockets – basements, foundations, window frames and the tiles of canted roofs. So many thick hidden beams. Their calm is taken as tacit support. And now the empty spaces in the square are leaned upon, and suddenly demand filling, suddenly demand action. As if some greatness hidden there. The majesty transmission of facades, now intercepted. But the buildings make no loans, none which can be redeemed. Politics are borrowed, yes, and lives, too; steel remelted, scorched crops become rich, fecund land. Still the hallowed cannot hallow, that is their grace, is grace. The commotion below, in the square – something about motion is juvenile, moments are distractions, too sweet. And emotions true, but only to themselves, and to others of their kind. Yet events have their queer necessity. The buildings, too, could be known as risings. Now they witness the rebellion at their feet, but never pause their celebration, the long fête of being. The buildings, the old buildings watch the revolution in the square. Patrick Cole Patrick Cole: "Poetry of mine has appeared recently in The Heron Tree, Arsenic Lobster and New Verse News. Other of my work has been published in the Writing That Risks anthology (http://amzn.to/18BlCtw), Rivet, Cosmonaut Avenue, and The Conium Review. My work has appeared in numerous other literary journals, including Parcel (a Pushcart Prize nominee), High Plains Literary Review (also a Pushcart Prize nominee), Agni online, Nimrod International, 34th Parallel, and turnrow. A one-act play of mine was a finalist in the Knock International Play Competition and was produced in Seattle."
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