Curves

created
concrete
elongated
surges
scraping
urban air
separating
that
created
expressions
subtle
kept discreet
shadows
formed
in light
borrowed
cooling
buildings
for the fair.

O. Niemeyer, covered Edificio Copan, São Paulo, Brazil

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..