15th April 2020

clear skies
bring more sunshine
withered seedlings

© Rachel Green 2020

Reconstruction

after fire,
restoration.
decisions
modified
one year ago
delay 13th-century glory
worship an impossible feat
Parisians lighting the night sky
collapsed
on 15 April 2019.

controversies
concentrate
objectives

declared “at peril”,
three honey bee colonies
escaped the flames
“completely unbothered”.

it was raining when I visited.


* a redaction poem from Kim Willsher in the Guardian, 14th April 2020

© Rachel Green 2020