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
the time of flowers has begun
the time of flowers has begun
and all the sorrows of this world
disappear in their presence



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