NZ Visual Diary - entry 444

Auckland Public Library - Parnell Branch

Are they sentinels, staunchly charged
with protecting the library from a horde
of book-burning barbarians,
or themselves that marauding army
on the adavnce?

The bushes either way appear ominous.

In relief, the library remains resolute,
a monument that captures fierce symmetry in stone -
textured, proportioned and exacting.

An expression of implacable beauty.