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NANCY FLYNN

 

 

Tong-len Forgotten

 

How is it I rush

past the young man asleep

on a cemetery bench

behind Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste,

my every thought on finding a café

 

yet still notice the newspaper folded,

inky shroud over his face,

Converse high-tops with no socks,

silver studs that are a belt below

a smile of skin, his waist

alive with its blue-vein tattoo?