Friday, October 27, 2023

1132. Fountains And Statues - John Tagliabue

FOUNTAINS AND STATUES AND AMAZED 

    TOURISTS BETWEEN NOTRE DAME

                 AND THE ORANGERIE


To have

had the heart of admiration of joy lifted

the way

Apollinaire lifted a poem, the way our gaze lifts

the Eiffel Tower;

the way Paris clearer in sunlight and springtime than

ever before lifts us;

from Pont Neuf you take off, in the Tuileries you see

Marcel Marceau

with a single flower or Monet with a thousand canvases.

Pavlova, how

can you get on your toe that way ? What are you doing

spinning and spinning

and spinning out in the universe and so

close to my heart ?

 

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