A second year in the chair, a sword with a blade nobody cleans, and the theatre next to the pub.
Sentinel
Category: Travel
Marks
Mark Grand Lodge, a street where every single kerb is marked, and a sign that outlived its shop.
An hour
A cemetery we could not read, a clerk who gave us an hour, and a generation recovered.
Three legs
A town that was never flattened, a shield with three armoured legs, and a very calm pigeon.
The pigeon
A fortress never taken, Germans and Russians buried side by side, and a bird in the canal.
The steps
A photograph from 1942, a set of brick steps, and two days spent looking for them.
The song
A hot dog, a palace, and several thousand people in a rose garden to hear a piano.
Tour guide
My girlfriend arrives and starts spotting everything I had walked past, beginning with four street signs.
Small print
Breakfast, a statue nobody reads, an obelisk that commemorates nothing, and a plaque on a corner.
Replica
Back out after lunch, still in Warsaw, reading walls in a city that labels its own copies.
