at 79 rue de Varenne

Green grows thick
beneath leaden feet
August’s ache
copper coin moon’s
light
pools
in argent tears
yesterday’s sun
below the curve
I lean in
breath’s soft hammer
and kiss
the cold comfort
of mute marble
of a happy loneliness.

Interpolation

Interpolation..
between another end and
yet another start.

Hatsuyuki

Snowflakes collide
I accelerate
out of season.

***
Only the first
flakes
snow is uncountable.

***
The seconds
between
white.

(Hatsuyuki is Japanese for ‘first snow of the season’)