by SweetOblivion
but that's my opinion, of course. I see your logic in using it, but my opinion is that it weakens the poem rather than strengthens it.
Later in the poem "summonising" surely should be "summoning"? "[U]p", in line 8 should be dropped (again, opinion), as it seems to me to be both redundant and to cheapen the verb ("picks") in the previous line.
"[A]n urban escarpment" is a nicely evocative phrase.
All in all, a poem of interest. Thanks.