Lingering Fumes
...An empty packet of Gauloises,
black coffee, a croque monsieur.
An aromatic café
breakfast in the Montmartre.
Later I switch to Camels,
a bumpy ride to seek out a friend
in the sixth arrondiss...
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Categories:
arrondissement, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rue Saint-Honore
...It's the weekend (Friday night). Lisa and I are hangin’, music’s playing, and we’re rummaging through my suitcase, for an outfit option, for me, tonight. Call it cliché, but we like going out - and g...
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Categories:
arrondissement, fashion, friendship, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
Adveniat
...it’s 2 am in paris
and we have locked arms
as we walk-run
down the rue des rosiers.
the soles of our shoes
smack against
the eight hundred
year old cobblestone.
we hurry
to an unknown de...
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Categories:
arrondissement, 9th grade, change, city,
Form: Free verse
Tales of a Paris Flaneur
...Early days as a flaneur;
I recall the couple
On the Metro
When I was still innocent
Of its labyrinthine complexities;
Slim pretty white girl,
Clad head to toe
In new blue denim,
Wistfully...
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Categories:
arrondissement, friend, loneliness, pain, paris,
Form: Prose Poetry