Record
Made a list.
A record.
The dishes she ate.
Monuments visited.
In Paris.
In chronological order.
A narrative into Paris,
from England,
through the dark tunnel,
into the light.
Then back, returning from
steak and frites
by the Arc de Triomphe,
lingering in the dark tunnel,
waiting for the swish of light.
She made a story out of it.
Stitched a fabric.
Clothed herself.
Made a day and a night
out of her life.
She sat back,
at the end of it.
Over.
And over.
Alan Hardy has for many years run an English language school for foreign students. He’s been published in such magazines as Envoi, Iota, Poetry Salzburg, The Interpreter’s House, Littoral, Orbis, South, Pulsar, Lothlorien, 100subtexts, Fixator, and others. Poetry pamphlets Wasted Leaves (1996) and I Went with Her (2007). @AlanWilliamHard