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Sights Unseen takes mundane sights in the visible world and coaxes them into revealing hidden aspects or odd relations. Unexpected framing and decisive editing sometimes force meanings that are not obvious but can be made manifest with a little creative license.

The Goose that Never Moves This is the story of the goose that never moves From its concrete platform by the river’s bend With passersby wondering how it behooves The mayor and the cops to have rules so loose To let a goose command a strand of public land. This is the story of the goose that never moves, In truth it seems the public tacitly approves This Summer laxity with order, law, and reprimand With passersby wondering how it behooves To bring tributes of grass and seed a

The scene is an ordinary Tuesday, late morning, under an overcast sky. Like every Tuesday (every day of the week, in fact), the boys are hanging at The Sill, looking cool and collected, with one claw to the wall, the other firmly gripping the street-side rim.

Attributing human characteristics or emotions to inanimate and natural objects is an old rhetorical and poetic device. Since the Romantics overused it, it has been somehwat deprecated (in the coding sense of being abandoned as obsolete). Still, the temptation is hard to resist considering how good our brain is at recognizing patterns, especially when it comes to faces.