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Rue de la Quarantine


The other day the sun
broke its tooth
gnawing

on a tough
speck of dust.
A dead mailman

stumbled from house
to house delivering
handfuls of dirt

and rain puddles
glistened
in the grass

like expired mirrors
slowly lowered down
into their little graves.
Jason Heroux
Queen 1
Vadim Bystritski