Saxby Pridmore: Two Poems
A Taoist on Montserrat
The Massif of Montserrat—Eocene
erosions and sediments form the
conglomerate of Central Catalonia
a “pudding stone” mountain range
pushed up through crust fractures
and riddled with rain made caves.
The ironstone Elephant’s Trunk and
Dead Man’s Head have crannies for
Pyrenean violets and honeysuckle.
Channels of blackthorn, starflowers and
holm-oak shade rosemary and thyme.
The ibex scales and Bellini’s eagle soars.
A Taoist took the cable-car to the
Basilica and climbed the narrow pilgrim
thronged staircase to a throne room
where the glassed-in Madonna and the
boy on her lap were both black.
He didn’t get there was a problem.
The Center Pompidou
looks like Disneyland dropped an oil
refinery in the middle of Paris.
It has coloured tubes and passages all over
the outside (you can’t see out the windows).
Blue for air-conditioning, yellow for electricity
green for water and red for people.
It…
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