E Klaman Bottles

the chimneys teeter held semi-erect like a “mommy helped” gingerbread decoration balanced on a black canvas artfully decorated by Jonathan Livingston Picasso wannabes the miniature cityscape of a rusted AC left to die among more modern towers stand nonchalant the canvas frosting tops a fine cakework of masonry its valor and pride long since diluted betwixt pretenders – more modern masons who knew neither pride nor patience yet the carefully splayed art laid by proud callused hands still to my eyes the same as it was to the pointed finger of his bride a nights rest well earned as its relief blossoms in the sun’s setting. a gull peers below as patrons never looking up escape with proof of their existence