Over a delicate arch-- <br />an eyebrow of stone-- <br /> <br />on the unruffled forehead <br />of a wall <br /> <br />in joyful and open windows <br />where there are faces instead of geraniums <br /> <br />where rigorous rectangles <br />border a dreaming perspective <br /> <br />where a stream awakened by an ornament <br />flows on a quiet field of surfaces <br /> <br />movement meets stillness a line meets a shout <br />trembling uncertainty simple clarity <br /> <br />you are there <br />architecture <br />art of fantasy and stone <br /> <br />there you reside beauty <br />over an arch <br />light as a sigh <br /> <br />on a wall <br />pale from altitude <br /> <br />and a window <br />tearful with a pane of glass <br /> <br />a fugitive from apparent forms <br />I proclaim your motionless dance<br /><br />Zbigniew Herbert<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/architecture-2/
