Didn’t have that set, Max, but that picture feels true to me (or I should say, I don’t remember such).
The new ones, & their doings, though: here too. Seen clearly here…
Doug
On Oct 1, 2014, at 8:15 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Seattle 4: Cranes
>
>
> Seattle’s September skyline’s
> all slow bright clouds,
> tall working cranes,
> with a sliver of Puget Sound.
>
> By the Space Needle
> the rock music museum's
> undulating sheath so very
> Gehry, signals fun for all.
>
> The cranes I used to make
> from Meccano seemed back
> then to be strong-willed
> assertions of the power to build.
>
> But I’d run out of suitable
> parts before my dreamed crane
> came fully into being;
> instead of steel cable
>
> I had only string.
> For lack of ballast
> in the base, precarious
> toppling forward to
>
> collapse. Lifting
> was about the last thing
> you could ask of it.
> Crane: long-necked bird
>
> on stalks for legs, bending
> that neck down for its bill to spear
> what caught its eye shining
> in the lake water.
>
> My cranes: a fraught
> family of weak-kneed brothers,
> looking down on random
> Meccano leftovers
>
> for items they might hook
> and lift and shift.
> These over Seattle
> sure look like they’re doing
>
> heavy lifting, raising
> that serrated skyline
> into greater heights
> and glassier glazing.
>
Douglas Barbour
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