Pick up a book, find a sentence, write a poem

Ella's challenge to the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads this Thursday was for members and visitors to pick up a book, look at a sentence, and use that sentence as inspiration for a poem.
Most of my books are packed away due to belated renovations of our house. Said renovations are becoming more belated by the day, I swan, and I have no idea where the best of my books might be.
So the book I picked up happened to be a guide book to the River Danube.
The sentence:
"In 1766, Emperor Joseph II opened up to the citizens of Vienna what until then had been the restricted imperial hunting grounds."

Jesuitenwiese in Prater

from hunting ground
to a place for play
a little yellow train
a football ground
a giant ferris wheel

what would Friedrich I 
have thought of the land

he gave to the Praters
to hunt on as they wished?

and what would
the Prater family have thought
of the land
that slipped

Wiener Riesenrad
in the Wurstelprater
amusement park

from their hands?

Emperor Joseph II  was wise
to share the land with Vienna
—and then a World Exhibition
shared Vienna with the world


Photos from Wikipedia