Gare du Nord

by Mothership on March 11, 2011

I saw you last night, though you didn’t see me.

I was watching a film in my faraway bed, hadn’t thought of you for years when you made your cameo.  I recognized you by your taxi rank and the particular quality of the pale winter light as it filtered through your dirty glass ceiling. I even thought I heard the coo of a grubby pigeon.

My girlish heart flew through time and space to place me on your sparkling concrete concourse, walking with dizzying fear, toppling desire, breathless longing towards a lover I hardly knew.

This happened more than once.


{ 9 comments }

1 Troutie March 11, 2011 at 3:31 pm

You’re a winner! Come over to mine to claim your prize. XXXX

2 Tim (aka Dotterel) March 11, 2011 at 11:58 pm

I think you should work that up into a poem… It’s so poignant.

3 ThisisDazy March 12, 2011 at 1:43 pm

That is beautiful. A nod to your earlier years skipping across the channel to meet your now husband?

4 geekymummy March 12, 2011 at 4:41 pm

Lovely! I hope its the opening page of your 500 page novel!

5 Sally4th March 12, 2011 at 10:19 pm

Was it meeting that lover at the station which happened more than once? Or was it meeting a lover you hardly knew more than once? TELL US!

6 Jkab March 14, 2011 at 4:32 am

And hang on – are you in Paris????

7 Mothership March 14, 2011 at 11:36 am

Jkab, I’m not in Paris. I’m still comfortably in California.
Sally4th, ThisisDazy is right, I did once used to skip across the channel to meet my now husband. But you also might be on to something. My life has been long and interesting 😉
Geekymummy. Perhaps I could write a novel of beginnings? I don’t ever seem to get past page 1.
Tim. That is so very kind.. And yet, I think that this might be all the poetry there is in me on this subject.
Troutie. I’ll be right over. xo

8 Jkab March 15, 2011 at 5:13 am

Well damn, thought maybe I could invite you for a quick glass of bubbly…maybe that could be chapter two? 😉

9 nappyvalleygirl March 15, 2011 at 8:30 am

Lovely. I can just picture you on that plaform (one I know well….).

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