phantasmagoric variegated

spasms of prismatic light

and crystal coruscating

cut the smoke stacks

leave their burning stuff

in festering dark orange

lintels between two towers

of soot spires and dusty muck

thump the brick substrate

the shaky flimsy wasted filament

airjolts cease while

cross-cinders snuffed

sniffed by black coated dogs

travel windward

smouldering, melting

necklace the bottom the spine

the base the steeple

rockfall slips steeply

from the spire to the underside

Rahul Hendriksen is a writer and student from Auckland, where he studies English Literature and Law. He is left-handed.