Some Other Garden by Jane Urquhart

Author:Jane Urquhart
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780771086694
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2000-09-23T04:00:00+00:00

blue and white

convince me this is porcelain

and permanence

unfolding here without

your strict approval

I want to keep

my small false castle

built within the time

frame of a miracle

the tiny garden with its urns

blue and white

you tear it down

because you cannot change it

improve it or expand it

the little structure

worked upon a lie

blue and white

blue and white

imaginary porcelain

shards sing

all around your feet

THE ANONYMOUS JOURNAL

Today I walked as far as the Trianons – an incredible distance. The garden around moves from one point to another. You do not pass it by like any other landscape. It crawls by you and the weather changes before it moves.

I walk away from the palace in a light drizzle, arriving at the Trianons with the sun full in the sky. It is broken into splinters on the west arm of the canal.

I arrive, realizing that there is very little of him left there. All that remains is one intimate allée, designed by Le Notre for a porcelain playhouse.

The whole geography has moved smoothly into another time.

And there is not a sign of me. The Trianon de Porcelaine is broken. I remain in a neutral room on the north side of the palace, fading into crowds of courtiers.

Walking back towards the palace I have to face the wind. It is almost dark.

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