Dante's Stones page two

 

III
Rivers of stone.
Stone rippling tirelessly
from one arrondissement to another, making roads and bridges
to and from places centuries away,
changing with the era.
They ebb and flow and
witness each anniversary,
great and small.

 
   
IV
Four thousand streams converge,
crisscrossing over eight thousand times,
from the exceptional breadth
of avenue Foch
to the trickle-down width
of the rue du Chat-Qui-Pêche.
So far-reaching
as the rue de Vaugirard
and as brief as the rue de Degrès.
Runoffs to the seas
of commerce and endless missions
of dire necessity
and light fancy.

 

 

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