Picture Postcards

Picture Postcards

Lost in the swamp of concrete
Goodbye Prague
With your yellow sky
Silver birches
With broken bases
Sweep the railway bank

Waterfalls of ice
Stopped dead
Life is on hold
The moment trapped
Hungary meets us
Grinning
Gleaming snow
A million diamonds

A mountain climbed
With red views
Delivered by the sinking sun
Ice cracking on rooftops
A clock ticking
The taste of a dark sky

Cars over cobbles
A gentle rumble
An ice breeze
Loose flesh
Supplied by time
Resting

Misty heat rising
Daylight daze disbanding
Under a hollow dome
Half full of smell
Stench of life
Yet lifeless