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“I dreamt I was in Paris” by Jen Booton
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“I dreamt I was in Paris”
Jen Booton
I dreamt I was in Paris
scents of coffee and absinthe
wafting as olfactory wind chimes
typewriters snug on Boulevard Montparnasse
tables peppered with burgeoning authors
lost among their own generation but destined
to be famous for centuries.
Drunk on wine, cigarettes and
delusion sturdy as centenarian
tree roots that their precious
moment in time, after war, was all
that mattered, which of course they were right
a ripple in the energetic tapestry of life
connecting them with me here, 100 years
Later on a wooden table snug against
a Smith-Corona drunk on the belief
that this sliver of presence means
just as much as it did to them
and that maybe it wasn't a dream after all
but a memory as we find ourselves
over and over again through the timeless echo
of ink-drenched words.
More from Jen Booton ↓
- @jenthepoeta on Instagram
- She runs Mística Holistica, a mystic shop and tea house in Avellanas, Costa Rica. There you can find Jen writing custom poems on a typewriter at the weekly Friday night market. And everyday you can access the poetry pharmacy featuring poets from around the world.
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