The Audit
Commissioning deities: Aphrodite, Adonis, Gaia, Venus
Topic: Beauty
Scope: Internal audit
Auditor name: Φαιδρα (Phaedra)
Auditor registration number: ͵δφξζ
Audit site: Addison St, Elwood, Victoria, Australia
Avenue measures είκοσι δύο schoinions
Date: ζʹ moon waning,͵βκ
Notes: Local numbering and sacred references
Key findings:
School sing-song wisps, plane trees frame powerline peril,
ribs smeared salmon and taupe to the apse. Driveways
bloom yards – uncombed jasmine at 93, roses clipped to fists,
fringed birch, spots of cumquat. Leonine sentries kiss camellias
pink, snow, arterial red; flocks of magnolia plead mercy and chant
novenas for poplar bones. Cruciform canal, swollen with sticks
and storms; hunched sentries tear bread, toddlers lob offerings –
spoonbill, heron, teal. Crossed by Shelley Street, freesias waft
to the uncoupled. Waterside, a baker dances in her driveway,
paints palings – I still love you, comical fish. Pickets woo
violets, homes claim names … Santa Fe, the tulip fretwork
of Ashfel, Rappelle’s sasanqua. A handful of banana palms
play, tawny eyes spy tabernacled pigeons; trouser legs watch
first-act baths, tea steams a bolted bench. Rainbow gates
at 13, swings on the verge – tyre and rope, plank and nylon –
Hebe’s brood insided. Baskets freckled purple at 7, terracotta
warms silver-eye and bird-of-paradise agree with soft winds.
Lorikeets hide in velvet-gloved gum, father-of-the-bride magpies
strut and ivy pretends to flee, one tendril at a time. Blossom
clots branches, a southerly tickles pregnant jacaranda,
nasturtiums unperturbed. At 58, a citrus circus teases would-be
thieves and cooks; eternally bogged, a wheelbarrow brims parsley
and rosemary twists for Priapos. Limbs buttress nests, tail feathers
pause … a lyre unsheathed, choristers perch on Addison’s bridge.
Escalation/s: N/A
Recommendation:
Site meets acceptable aesthetic standard: (Cross appropriate box)
☒ Strongly agree ☐ Agree ☐ Neutral ☐ Disagree ☐ Strongly disagree
OFFICE USE ONLY
Report in Calliope-endorsed format ☐ Yes ☐ No
Appropriate escalations/recommendation ☐ Yes ☐ No