BOX IN THE MARAIS

In the Marais
just passing through
with a black box
holding darkness
under my arm
box full of poems
box full of emptiness
box full of pacifiers
box full of rage
box full of photos
for the blind
box full of puppets
for child deportees
box full of bullets
voices feathers
box full of cries
box full of faces
box of hunger
box full of lyrics
box full of smoke
box full of lightbulbs
just passing
through the night
ville lumiere
paris city of plaques
reistance complicity
Vel' d'Hiv
dark doings done
in broad daylight
box full of birds
box full of burdens
Vel' d'Hiv
Vel' d'Hiver
torn down
bulldozed
still there


  David Gershator