Saturday commute cix: "Near the road and the small bridge"

  
  Mec
     The face of heads
                       Idols
  In a corner the sound of a car
             Everything's asleep
  Barely a minute
                  And here I am
  Eyes poring over a caricature
  A fist on full-blown reality

  


 Damn, it's all so far
 The numbers drift away
 On the board where the
  few letters of a name bleed
      Wednesday
        Punctured wind
 The hole pierces the date
 And one passes through
  without batting an eye
 The stains have aged
  on the green-painted bridge

 And the trees passing by
 On the way never a trace
  or reverse
        A man who can't wait

ii  Hubert de Givenchy
       and Audrey Hepburn 
       source unknown

Pierre Reverdy
Oeuvres complètes
Flammarion, 2010©
  Près de la route
    et du petit pont
1919
Mark Polizzotti 
  translation
New York Review Books, 2013©