Vivant (Alive)
Published in Signet: Creative Arts Magazine 2023 Edition
Evokes a blank.  
Plunging into another world,   
I live in memories where
decrepit cobbled streets flutter with people.   
  
I breathe cigarette plumes,   
dusty clouds.  
Droplets pulsating against my face.  
  
I drink scalding chocolate, milky swirls create   
lines. Ink drenching pages 
form unwritten rules.  
  
Here mannequin statues ride 
hollow trains  
to clock towers rippling in an endless sky.   
  
Trois   
Deux   
Un  
I pause time. 
  
I paused time.  
One   
Two   
Three  
  
Clock towers rippled.   
In an endless sky  
here, mannequin statues rode hollow train lines.   
Ink-drenched pages.   
Formed unwritten rules.   
  
I drank scalding chocolate, milky swirls created  
droplets pulsating against my face.  
  
I breathed cigarette plumes.    
Dusty clouds, decrepit.  
Cobbled streets fluttered with people.  
  
I lived in memories where   
Plunging into another world   
Evoked a blank.