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Once it was a wedding cake confection,
wrought iron coiled like icing.
Fashionable ladies rustled in silk,
fortune tellers promised long life,
music drifted from bands to drown
threatening voices of wind and sea.

A snake of fire hatched on the pier
tasted and swallowed woodwork,
slithered among columns and walkways,
uncoiled scarlet through windows.
A grey confusion of smoke arose
volcanic eruption over the sea.

Merely a memory of the ballroom remains.
A turtle-shell of twisted tubes and stays
garlanded with fishing nets and twine
emerges rust-red from a grey silk sea.
Echoes of pavilion whisper on sky:
orphan columns bearing empty air.


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