In the sunlight
on Place de la Bastille
fallen, like a statue
you lie
one full leg
one half stumped
in streeted combats
stretched out
one boot,
an anorak,
unkempt face
asleep in the unexpected
a butterfly cleaves
to your reclining body.
© Maureen Daly
French more anti-capitalist than the Chinese - poll
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Maureen's work has appeared in Anthologies and in a publication of the White house poets. She has also been published in a Ledwidge competition.
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Editor's note: It was Bastille Day yesterday in France. Maureen says: The dreams of liberty, equality and fraternity have yet to be realised for the majority of the world's population.