at first glance it seems a christmas tree
rising from short trunk
widening then climbing to apex and point
water cascading down the circular sides

it is in fact a diamond inverted
triangular metal bars ascending to points
level upon level
a splay pattern of hexagonal facets

water streams from the cap of the upper level
down the metal tubes to a gutter
channels to the next cap
down metal tubes to gutter
through three levels
then slides facet to air
forming breaking and re-forming unsupported triangles
that start wide then narrow to a thin stream
that strikes the surrounding pool
with its stray handful of well-wished coins
lapping gently past the reaching hand of a small child
draped across the brickwork barrier
before rising again through the trunk toward the apex peak

the mother has risen now
time to journey on
within the movement of transient shoppers in a misted background
that forms sub-text to the constant
of cascading water
in the endless cycle of a fountain in the square
of the canberra centre
~

Frank
~


The Tales of Faust poetry page can be found at:
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~flp/F_index.htm


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