Five foolish virgins
Notre Dame Cathedral, Strasbourg
Five foolish virgins teetering
on Tequila
Solomon doing his best
with another hopeless case
prophets making banners
for Green Peace and Amnesty
apostles writing letters
for the protection of bees
Church and Synagogue staring over
the long space between them
suave Lucifer doing a deal
that he’ll never keep
young knights riding out
with a saddlebag of bitcoins
gargoyles gawping greedily
at tourists with ice-creams
And then I saw her
the great goddess
the girl with the hazel eyes
the child in her arms
and a cape to cover all sorrow
running over the cobbles
to the Resto du Coeur.
Note: Les Restos du Cœur are soup kitchens, set up by the French comedian Michel Colucci
Jill Husser-Munro grew up in the north of Scotland and has lived and worked in Strasbourg, France, for over thirty years. Her work has been published in Poetry Scotland, Amethyst Review, The Alchemy Spoon, Wildfire Words, Dreich Magazine and Causeway Magazine.
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