Paris in Winter by Tim Suermondt

Sturdy jackets, collars up.

Raspail in the afternoon.

White plums in the sky

ruffled as if painted on.

Empty benches in front

of an old memorial building,

the disappointed pigeons

milling about like prisoners

in the courtyard. Where else

to go this late in the season?

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Tim Suermondt’s sixth full-length book of poems “A Doughnut And The Great Beauty Of The World” will be forthcoming from MadHat Press in 2021. He has published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Stand Magazine, december magazine, On the Seawall, Poet Lore and Plume, among many others. He lives in Cambridge (MA) with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.