Paris run
Just before sun
Over chilly Seine
Countless steps on quiet streets
Earbuds sound Léo Ferré
Saint Germain des Prés
Garçon de café
clanking down unbundled chairs
on hose washed terrasse
Chilly splashes pinprick
sweating calves from
cleaning trucks that flush
the streets of crottes de chien
Wait! Enveloping sniff from boulangerie
Bread is done.
And croissants, buttered flakes
delight the tongue,
strewing all with crumb
the day dawns.
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