Campanile

“Green Campanile at Center” by Paul Klee

 

home to articulate bronzework
high over tiled terracotta
you somberly signal the medieval hours
reminding of due obligations
to masters and mitered monsignors

you give platformed seclusion
to sentries and treasonous spies
you accommodate princes for plotting
their intrigues of state under
non-prying eyes of the stars

you lend prospect to falconers
launched of their goshawks
to best enjoy seizing of prey
and your shadow sundials the ground
with its sovereign cast