James A. Hawley
from Vezelay
 
                A brebis tondue Dieu mesure le vent.
 
 
 
Ash trees were just leafing out
Along the Rue de Rivoli
The one window in our
 
Room on the third floor
Overlooking the boulevard
Opening out on them.
 
I thought I saw you
That Palm Sunday
In front of the église
 
Across the street
Handing out sprigs
Of boxwood to the devout.
 
A highway runs by the roadhouse
At the bottom of the hill
& it was there we learned you’d
 
Just passed through not
Long ago, had in fact
Taken a room in that very
 
Establishment & stayed the night
Howling at a moonless sky
A vocalization tempered
 
By vin au cassis & Leffe, hills