City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay by Tara Brabazon

Author:Tara Brabazon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

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Faracy Grouse

Abstract

Faracy Grouse offers a poem of urbanity and the humanity within it. She maps emotions and relationships on the streets of Lisbon.

Waking from a quiet nightmare

face wet with tears and sweat

green velvet curtains finally tell me that I’m in my Lisboa

The nightmare sticking to me

scrubbing myself in a cold shower but it won’t wash

the nightmare of me watching you through a barrier of glass

on a train across England- you being berated by some dowdy woman who is pointed out to be your wife by my childhood friend

who plainly says “he is a man, he can do what he wants”

and I beat on the glass but you cannot hear me,

and the glass becomes only a picture in my hand

where she has taken away your spirit

and you appear to be a mannequin-

I walk through Chiado and Rossio dipping my arms in the fountains

trying to wash off the thought

tilting back my head to keep the tears from running

but they mix with the August sweat and I walk on blinded-

I am pulled to the banks of the Tejo by a force stronger than my legs, closer and closer until I am standing on the pier,

I write your name on a piece of paper

then everything I couldn’t say through the glass

I throw it into the water and watch the waves carry it away,

thinking somehow you will hear me through this river

through the sea

in this city, your city, my home-

Let me give this man my love.

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