Unrooved

Cities harbour countless such pale frigates, ghost ships, anchorless, unrecorded cruisers who pass through ports unwelcomed & soon exit thankless—though glad to find most cities’ freedoms & complexities, including domiciles, unrooved, unmitred—not like homes which occupants must broom & furnish & then lock to keep outside such passersby as these, the uninvited.

In fact, there is also a dedicatory statue for Achilles in the same unrooved courtyard.

On numerous trips to Abomey, friends and tour guides have noted that the statue of King Benhazin of Dahomey stands purposefully unrooved, so that both rain and sun will beat down on his head as an eternal reminder that it was he who lost the kingdom to French colonials.