Construction

  

A square for now

But soon an obelisk

Towering over trees

Erected with routine simplicity

Questions of structure

Are now questions of schedules

Rituals of awe and reverence

Replaced by fluoro vests

Claws bite rock and earth

Rivers of gray flow thickly

Into lakes of concrete

Festooned with steel reeds

Hollow caverns that soon

Will teem with families and warmth

Off the ground, in the air

Above the trees