Pome: Run Down By The Rhone

I will see you there

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Crimsonorange light take moi. Pic: Paradisio Publishing

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Run Down By The Rhone

run down by the Rhone

in the luminous sun

in southern France

where the air is scented and warm

and the country is lush and the sense is

calm -

there can be no other way

as the birds chirrup their madrigals of afternoons bygone when fanning out, arrowing for the horizon where Africa waits in crimsonorange waving light

and you see people you’ll never see again

down along by the Rhone in Lyon

and you see, too, this:

a glimpse, a shaft of incandescence where their lives are, where they began, where they go and then