before the city fixes its face arranges affairs and persuasions before a leather valise has been carefully shouldered in randomness before anyone discerns the slow car rising and falling over the speed bump a coasting bicycle passing by before the sun’s slow arc brings the provincial beauty before the cicadas mark the oppressive heat with their passion song the conversations of the strollers drift over the stone river bank in time to the breathy speech of the joggers and the music blossoming in the young man’s ears the older couple discussing where they are headed pointing in opposed directions then she is there in the old house between the new apartment blocks half its red shutters closed then her rolling figure almost fills the ground floor window while she gazes at the scene before her her sheer nightgown pulsing in the morning breeze her tiny dog head keeping time to her bare round arm a metronome bringing the first cigarette of this day she coos her love to this sleepy black dog with the aged white muzzle nodding in her shade hanging on her every word
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l'Hermitage
Video and photography by James Steeber, poem and reading by P.B. Warrington
Sep 04, 2022
l'Hermitage