Published: 1 April 2026

your smallest scrap of paper, s’il vous plait

after a photo by Saul Leiter, “Paris, 1959”
in Paris, a café
a tiny round table
she writes on the smallest
scrap of paper available
her words must be exact
precise, capable of
economy of space
all to be accomplished
with a fountain pen

there is a seltzer bottle
there is a newspaper
there is coffee, there is milk
there is sugar, there is no
bottle of ink, there is a haze
in the air, there are passersby
because she is outside
and the light is exquisite

More Poetry:

Let Go Donald Let Go!

Don’t matter what USA say
Donald can change it anyway
If he don’t like it
he won’t play
see where that leaves you
Mr. and Mrs. Yesterday
You’re so loser

spring storm

blue grey opal shoals of storm blow
tonight though it is still pink pearl dusk
and each obsidian shadow a life of its own

Mountain of birds

The very moment when all goes wrong
the thought who will pay, how will this be fixed
pale beside the sight of the mountain of birds.
The innocent, slain, built into a burial heap,
what’s wrong, in your life, with your lie?

_pray Foam

Driving home
I follow a truck,
written on its back
“_pray Foam,” and I think

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Let Go Donald Let Go!

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Don’t matter what USA say
Donald can change it anyway
If he don’t like it
he won’t play
see where that leaves you
Mr. and Mrs. Yesterday
You’re so loser

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spring storm

spring storm

blue grey opal shoals of storm blow
tonight though it is still pink pearl dusk
and each obsidian shadow a life of its own

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