spires out of focus -

the blind marble eyes of

the historians bust

across Cambridge backs

the hue of King Henry's robes -

purple crocuses

nave in the distance -

already the chorister's

steps are quickening

fugue from the chapel -

the swaying golden trumpets

of the daffodils

flowers in floodlight

under ornate silhouettes

of twilight towers

chapel's reflection

in the pond - the gothic arch

of the goose's neck

what Henry's builders

could never have imagined -

the crane driver's view

King's College Chapel

carillon over the fields -

a bicycle bell

a whirring of wheels -

and, usurping King's Parade

a group of women

Matins, and the sound

of descants drifts through the trees -

the silent dump trucks

charity vendor -

the wind from round the chapel

tugs at his collar

in the shutter's blink

five hundred years are captured -

long gaze of a cow

a moving joystick -

as monitors scan the walls

the sun turns slowly

the chapel's east front -

from the town's highest window

an intake of breath

a heap of bike wheels -

the reflected chapel bends

on the car bonnet

the fair comes to King's:

stained glass windows; bumper cars;

culture collision

high chapel facade -

the timeless architecture

of the Mute Swans's nest

sunset horizon -

at day's end no city left

but these pinnacles

commerce through the glass -

the skyline reflected at

car park level six

reed paintings displayed -

the visiting couple laugh

at something unseen

two demonstrators

on an amnesty vigil -

clouds pass the towers

Chapel in the rain -

mid-river, the fan vaulting

of blue umbrellas

chapel all but lost -

cold fog drifts through the street lamp's

iron filigree

balancing in punts

the singers' steady voices

clear across the water

outside reception -

the chapel towers look down

on social small-talk

graduation day -

beyond the College precinct

a panorama

forms within a form -

we see the western towers

with a sculptor's eye

weather station masts -

the chapel spires could tell them

tales of many storms

as they mount the steps

a glance at the pinnacles -

Cambridge graduands

against the window

caught in a tracery of light -

Japanese cherry

readers silhouettes -

two frames like an open book

window the chapel

facing spires of trees

the topping-out crew line up -

mouth hard hatted prayers

acoustic guitar -

outside the hollow chapel

she fingers the frets

choral evensong -

one chapel's voiced resonance

reaches another

drifts of bright flowers -

 clouds behind the finials

of the chapel roof

eternity of snow -

we gaze for a second that

seems like forever