Matsuyama Castle Grounds / Japan 2008
The castle perched high above the busy city
ringed by a deep moat.
Fisher birds posed atop nesting sheds,
bobbing for koi,
preening their flea bitten feathers;
dreaming of past majesty.
Across the bridge through the massive gates
humanity, lumbered
passing layered levels of water gardens,
overlapping like the squares in a Mondrian painting,
forming asymmetrical rectangular patterns.
The basins of rimed granite block
edged in white limestone gravel hedged in an
early Fall display of chrysanthemums.
Copyright © Debbie Guzzi | Year Posted 2009
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