From Our Correspondent in: Theatre Square, Dresden

Don't let's hang about

on the cobblestones.

The equestrian statue—keep

going—represents the king.

Yes, the Dante translator.

Now let's move on.

Lovely theatre, first rate, but

no point in dawdling

because this paving is contaminated

(a nuclear accident

near the quarry) and here we are

already like ghosts on this X-ray plate, like ghouls,

radiological tourists, little glass vessels

blown with a breeze of electrons.