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He Was Visiting Someone Else
Exhaust trailing from under the belly growling,
A fine fog dissipating into the surrounding black velvet
Rumbling bus relinquishing its toasted wares
Onto cobbled walk sides, sleepy crowd alights
Into a fishbowl of silence, a void winking bare
On dripping stone cloaked inky in murky sleep’s hour
Fought feebly by posts with subdued amber crowns
Sapped echoes lying round alleyways, wrapped in sighs
A climb down, to see that swerved brow, eyebrows never not
Cocked in slingshot mode, smirk always burrowed in the back
Of such parted lips; From the start a presence noticed
Turning gaze right away to watch lanky steps wide
Not pressed but eager to arrive, yet neck also bent
Bewildered, and following, fostering a hope to receive
A visit, a crossing, a cut of eyes; slur of words,
Even stupid, in good time, shared and understood
Dark eerie assaulted the heels of the feet,
Soles slapping puddles imitating the damp world above
As under the hovering roofs the paced footsteps placed
Elucidation unheard; collar drawn up to the jaw
Gliding form up hilly asphalt black cake crumbs;
Lost round the church’s hip, found again on the Rue
de L’Eglise; eyelids lowered, tentatively trained on
The broad back floating right past the drive up
Towards the next cottages obscured by night; leaving
A deflated chest, a closed mouth, a silent click of defeat
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