{"id":2974,"date":"2016-04-12T02:10:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T02:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2016-04-12T02:10:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T02:10:20","slug":"pere-lachaise-paris-by-beth-boylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/pere-lachaise-paris-by-beth-boylan\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00c8RE LACHAISE, PARIS by Beth Boylan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"me\"<\/p>\n

P\u00c8RE LACHAISE, PARIS<\/p>\n

by Beth Boylan<\/p>\n

we climb up through the cemetery
\non the bleakest of mornings,<\/p>\n

crossing paths with all the other bundled-up
\nvultures and crows,<\/p>\n

flitting between Chopin and Piaf
\nhunting and pecking for Jim,<\/p>\n

Oscar Wilde buried in lipstick kisses
\nGertrude with Alice still hissing wisecracks
\nfrom beneath a row of neatly placed stones;<\/p>\n

you are an angel,
\nbearing with me and my book full of Post-Its,<\/p>\n

unfamiliar with these scoundrels
\nyet standing here in reverence anyway<\/p>\n

amidst the cracked crosses
\nand chipped faces of saints,<\/p>\n

which distract us for now
\nfrom our own cold-hearted sins.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Beth Boylan loves hiking, reading, and eating cheese. She tries to make sense of the world around her through the written word. Beth teaches high school English and is also an adjunct professor at Brookdale Community College, dividing her time between the Jersey Shore and northern mountains of Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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