Satin Steel

Another of Wellington's art works, on Lambton Quay.

Sculpture by Anton Parsons

Poem by Peter Beatson

INVISIBLE CITY
The word made flesh can bleed.
Am I bound or freed?
Embracing visual silence
alone
I breed a virtual skin of signs
across the void
but when the fault line ruptures
the word made flesh will bleed.
By the unseen quay
I plant this graven seed
betrayed by the wind
my sonic charts destroyed
tethered sign to skin
I am both bound and freed.