Armilla Thin Cities
Unfinished/demolished/enchantment/whim
No walls, ceilings, floors
Pipes everywhere, as though buildings
Forest of pipes with taps, showers, spouts
Toilets, baths, other porcelain (like fruit)
Small, slender nymphs around the porcelain
Water spraying from the taps and such
Fountains
Mirrors
Might be very tough pipes
Might have been people there before
Nymphs sing
Diomira Cities & Memory
Sixty silver domes
Bronze statues of all the gods
Streets paved with lead
Crystal theatre
Golden cock that crows on the tower
Similar to other cities?
Multicoloured lamps at food stall doors
People feel its the best place, everyone happy
Terrace
Beautiful
Esmeralda Trading Cities
City of water
Canals and streets intersect each other
Choice between land or boat
No straight way to get to places zigzags
Steps, landings, bridges, hanging streets
Cats, thieves, illicit lovers follow higher routes
Rooftops to balconies, following guttering
Rats, conspirators, smugglers in sewers
Peep out of manholes, drainpipes
Slip through double bottoms, ditches
Smuggle gunpowder and contraband
Swallows
Hidden routes
Very Venice-esc
Baucis Cities & Eyes
Middle of woodlands seven day march
Slender stilts into the clouds (flamingo legs)
Climb up by ladders
City has everything needed
On sunny days a pierced, angular shadow
Hate earth? Completely clean and medical
Respect earth? No need to go down
Love earth? Telescopes pointing out the base
Long wells for water? Pipes?
Stilts long distance from each other
City would be cloudy?
Above clouds? Dome for thin air?
Ersilia Trading Cities
Strings stretch from corners of houses
White, black, grey, black and white
Blood, trade, authority, agency
Too many strings means they leave
Camping on a mountainside nearby
Houses dismantled
Poles with strings left (labyrinth like)
Rebuild elsewhere
Relationships are important
Spider web like
Fedora Cities & Desire
Grey stone metropolis
In the middle is a metal building
Every room has a crystal globe
Every globe has a blue model
Every model is a different Fedora
They are what Fedora could have been
Every visitor choses the one that they desire
Each was an ideal, but the city changed too fast
Canal dried up
High canopied box along the avenue
Spiral minaret (never built)
Medusa pond connected to canal
Changes quickly, forever being built?
Museum busy, every inhabitant visits
 Isaura Thin Cities
City of the thousand wells
Over a seep, subterranean lake
Wells as far as the city extends but no further
Green border repeats the outline of the lake
Everything that moves in the sun is by waves
Enclosed by the rocks calcareous sky
Two forms of religion
The gods live in the black lake under the city
Or they live in the things that raise the water
Bucket wells, revolving pulleys, pumps,
Windmills, norias, twisting probes,
Reservoirs on stilts over roofs, aqueducts,
Columns of water, vertical pipes, plungers,
Drains, weathercocks on airy scaffolding
Moriana Cities & Eyes
Alabaster gates transparent in sunlight
Coral columns pediments with serpentine
Villas of glass like aquariums
Shadows of dancing girls with silvery scales
Medusa shaped chandeliers
Walk in a semicircle to see the hidden face
Rusting sheet metal, sackcloth, planks with
Spikes, pipes blackened by soot, piles of tins,
Blind walls with fading signs, frames of staved
In straw chairs, ropes, rotten beams
Like a sheet of paper, good on one side,
Bad on the other side
Past mountains
Sophronia Thin Cities
Two half cities
One has a great roller coaster with steel humps,
Ferris wheel, motorcycle death ride, carousel
Big top with trapezes, shooting galleries
Other is stone and marble and cement
Banks, factories, palaces, slaughterhouse,
School, ministry, monument, docks, petroleum
Refinery, hospital, marble pediments, stone
Walls, cement pylons
normal city leaves to other circus half cities
Circus city awaits its return
Leonia Continuous Cities
Everything is new each day
All old stuff is in bags on streets
Grows bigger each year
The thrown out piles higher and wider
The rubbish surrounds the city like mountains
Rubbish last longer and resists time
Outside the city could be more cities
Rubbish mountains could destroy the city
Everything is brand new and shiny
Everything gets better each day
Other cities are waiting to expand over Leonia
Rubbish mountains overlapping each other
Looks like craters from a distance
Street cleaners welcomed like angels
Phyllis Cities & Eyes
Bridges over canals; cambered, covered, on
Pillars, on barges, suspended, with tracery
Balustrades
Windows; mullioned, Moorish, lancet, pointed,
Surmounted by lunettes or stained glass roses
Pavements; cobbles, slabs, gravel, blue and
White tiles
Fortress with caper bush from the walls
Statues of three queens on corbels
Onion dome with the smaller onion domes
Threaded on the spire
City seems great at first then fades
Residents carry baskets
Tamara Cities & Signs
Amid trees and stones, marshes
Hibiscus flowers, tigers
Streets thick with signs, images for things
Palace, prison, mint, Pythagorean, brothel,
Dont need signs
Statues and shields with depictions of lions,
Dolphins, towers, stars
Undecipherable signs, signs for what is
Forbidden or allowed
Temples with statues of the gods
May be full of secrets
 Thekla Cities & The Sky
Under constant construction, fear destruction
Plank fences, sackcloth screens, scaffoldings,
Metal armatures, wooden catwalks hanging
From ropes or supported by sawhorses,
Ladders, trestles
Workers hoist sacks, lower leaded strings, move
Long brushes up and down
Someone puts his eye to a crack in a fence
Cranes pulling cranes, scaffolding embracing
Scaffolding, beams prop beams up
Work stops at sunset, stars are the blueprint
Zenobia Thin Cities
Wonderful fashion
On dry terrain, on high pilings
Houses made from bamboo and zinc with many
Platforms and balconies on stilts at various
Heights, crossing over, linked by ladders and
Hanging walkways, cone roofed belvederes,
Barrels of water, weather vanes, pulleys, fish
Poles and cranes
Appears to have grown from the first now
Undecipherable plans
No one knows if the city was planned to be this