Poem by R.M. Dolin, February 23, 2024
Scattered Cobblestones
You can no more change
contrasting colors of sunset
than you can rescue
tired bones from
long forgotten sidewalks,
or keep someone from leaving
even though
they’re still in love.
Paris paints me in
taunting echos of
laughter and longing
using vibrant brush strokes
that now scratch at a pallet
that’s gone stale and crumbly.
Roubaix’s queen of the classics
is suffering put to form,
where the lost find peace
in the rise and fall
of scattered cobblestones
speaking necessary truths
about dreams too big to fail
enmeshed in the
unrelenting gears of fate.
Background poem for the novel, “The Dangling Conversation.” Kyle’s uncertain he can ever again come to Paris after accepting Nadia no longer loves him.
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