BETWEEN FOUR JUNCTIONS

mirror-bound you care only for your lipstick t o t t e r i n g back, you focus on your prize, and aim, just over there the four-seater with the bonsai tree you do not notice the skylight water on black glass, the lonely door you can barely see

Jack Williams

Queen Sq. Riots, 1831

Our circus circumambulates King Billy. Most fashionable, brave king – a man of war; Survivor of flames and foreign treachery! And when the city’s sons cried freedom’s roar, Magnanimous Billy obliged their ills, till he was draped in – quel faux pas! – les tricolors. Dragoons avenged the royal mien, with lead. And all a footnote. Some four-score dead.