Barricades glitter like shrapnel of fallen stars.
Bayonets flash Basilisk grins in the square.
A hidden arc of love stretches across metallic rubble.
Pink scarf clouds drift above unseen by clerks.
A mother's sigh hovers noiseless over the jet Seine.
Two gamin scatter as heaven shakes their reflections on dark water.
Thieves treasure daylight when sons slight mothers.
On it goes, silent as shushed sighs, to La Santé.
Sister Amalie cries.
The rope is taut.
No bead, no hosanna,
can loose Justitia's collar.
Let us pray for the grace
of every gutted chest's hollow.
Light a candle of mercy
to hush the amputee's bellow.
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