Today’s postcard was a reproduction of an 1887 photograph of Salisbury’s own Giant and Hob-Nob, so I felt that called for a more playful approach. 🙂
Pageant
Hems
gathering dance steps
swift curves and
folds precipitated
in the ritual of
street-wise love
eyes rigid with festive overload
exuberance hidden behind wigs
curl over curl of grandfatherly
custom, lace brimming under modesty
and oh the sharp
tip of comedy
puncturing the
fairy circle
until history
takes over.
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