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Hexing the Circle | Poem

 
  
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Hexing the Circle

For Stan Fairchild, 23 June 2000


        In the darkness of Paris nights,

        Some levees are neither riotous

        Nor light-fingered, leaving no

        Trace beyond a smudged brand

        In the gulf between

        Peace and Commerce.


- David Mitchell
 

 to David      to Moongate
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