On the Rue du Bac Begin by the Quay d’Orsay And entering the quartier First a broad and straight few blocks Then things start to narrow Press of the older city Start to bias leftwards Steady like a scythe blade You couldn’t see the end of the long Street’s shaded inverted Trajectory always hid Its faces your future a few Minutes ahead askew Until you sighted a crossing of roads Ahead and here’s a doorway You’re behind Le Bon Marché Nuns are streaming in A sudden phenomenon And seeming magnetised you join Their subterranean movement The shopping day steps on In its interiority Courtyard and chapel quietly When seated something is let free Under the colour of Mary And Catherine Labouré
Martin Potter (https://martinpotterpoet.home.blog) is a poet and academic, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, Eborakon, Scintilla, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Poetry Village, and other journals. His pamphlet In the Particular was published by Eyewear in December, 2017.
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