The Fridge

Cold

cold room, tall, no sun
three woman high
five by three, small
yet not large, walkable
seventy rounds, one kilometre
stone, upon stone
sixty centimetre walls
solid, functional
Cold

Cold To The Eye

cold walls, white, plastered,
thrown on, over time, rippled, dented, rough
white paint, covering, thick, runny, fingers
the floor, concrete, overcast grey
functional, used, stained
paint, coffee, paper
green, white, red
works of blood
unseeable
To the eye

Cold To The Soul

cold windows, wood, rotten from time
inside, outside, dead room
high tech, up market, were
glass, pre-Pilkington
arty, welled, Freznel
showing the living world
from the inside out, disembodied
vents
To the soul

Cold To The Heart

cold radiator, Kind hoch, cast from ancient times
thermostat, modern, functionless, deceased
fitting to room
workplace, living place, screaming place
a home, a base, a space
walls soaked in life, hundred years, dark
forgotten stories, toil, love, pain, Freude
brewers, children, Nazis, artists, voices, locked in stone
lost, for ever
To the heart

Cold To The Body

cold when sitting
cold when waiting
cold when lying
cold when working
cold when thinking
unseeable, unsmellable, unhearable
intangible, creeping, webbed
slowly up, and in
To the body

Cold To Freeze

Arching, head free, at entrance, a wooden platform
from past architect, built, Bauhaus style
useful, purposeful, suitable
for stacking, lying, piling
storage, long term
large, for 80 kg meat, fresh, flesh
embedded
To freeze

The Fridge

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German words

Kind hoch: child high
Freude: joy