Rue De La Vielle Lanterne, Paris Poem by Kevin Kiely

Actress goddess Jenny Colon's memory
of a four poster bed sent to her door
―his bad move in that failed seduction.
Dr Blanche among the goose-pimpled inmates
in iced-water baths at the asylum
not surprised at the wino-poet's suicide
dangling from window bars at the Doss
infrequent poems in short lived journals

Lobster on a dog leash, unsure movements
of head and limbs like its keeper's protest
'it will be my last madness to believe
myself a poet: criticism will cure me of it'
Poems unlocked nervous de Nerval's vision
beyond language fantasy identity