LITERAL
The Pavilion
garishly ornate
with aged peeling paint
and made-in-Singapore Chinese dragons
casting their wings towards
the pewter sky.
intricate carvings in stylised script
tell a tale that was
never told.
wrought iron banisters are
eaten away by the ravages of time.
and modernity.
an artificial totem of
a lost age;
anachronistic too, in its
still life.
