The Poets' Place

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Lantern

Ceiling? Or a discard piece from "Skywalker Meets Travolta" _________

Jennifer & I did Paris --

two months in '92.

1 Rue des Ecoles: Le Cardinal where

Roger liked Americans because they had

cash!

not us...

a limp Visa and some coins.

our room didn't have a ceiling

~NeverLander2

global lantern

it was a paper world

that is all.

it fostered nothing but the suicide of bugs.

you told me that ........ so many times.

i only saw the glow

a lasting filament

geometry of sphere

knew if we would both blow hard

we could make it orbit anywhere.

you would not be convinced.

.......i wish you well............

~thomas alva edison.

~helen

there are cracks in the ceiling, like

a Fenton poem --

but in Paris all lights are on,

even in early afternoon.

with shades drawn,

we undress -

and caress each other

madly

madly in love

in Paris

somewhere between

the sheets and leaves

of the hibiscus flower

and the glass-stained, mahogany dresser.

~susan

of course. the moon.

and the sun. quite eclipsed.

at quiet guard. not a mouse

stirring. but sick at heart.

The glowworm

his uneffectual fire and

the man on the moon

ask their way

to Norwich.

~Connor

Incandescence from a paper globe
succumbs to jealous shadows crept
from corners to smother brilliance
of their cousin,
tricks of physics
the only code of rooms surrendered
to slow darkness as gendarmes below
in fiercer glow stroll city boulevards.

~Ron

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