The Looking Glass Corridor

(This was written after I spent an hour in hospital corridors and tunnels.)

A human dressed
like an angel
concludes by saying, "take care"
before sallying forth
down the long business corrider.

I walk through the tunnel,
surrounded by multicolored tubes.
Humans in uniforms grow near then diminish
into vanishing point
entrances to new encounters.

Iron monsters
with bearded men astride,
stir a whirlwind
crashing past me howling warnings
then evanesce into silence.