In webs of darkness

Internet troll faces arrest for threats to MP
METRO, 8 June 2012

A concealed geometry underlies
the best Parisian heels.

Beneath the laughable symmetries

of bonsoirs, aux revoirs

and their shadows thrown on wet stones,

a staccato precipitate drips

unseen in delicate counterpoint

to the scratching of tiny feet.

A gondolier plies these catacombs

equipped with only a lantern

and a wooden scraping tool,

and scurrying marks his passage

as surely as gulls’ cries

mark a homecoming trawler’s wake.

(c) 2012 Slush Poet