reflection volume 54.1

roses, ten for €3 (or twenty for €5) Torrey Smith stocking up for the week the breads breathe warmth filling the aisles of lungs (entrances corked by the crowd) the schools of fish in their ice baths stare up at passersby (round questions in their eyes) kaleidoscope tiles bluegrey and browncream celtic cross one another and churn into the fountain (and lead us on) meat window exhibits adorned with red the chicken inn and tim o’sullivan’s meats (beef hearts, €2.50 each) drums of olives and pickles and every type of cheese brie blue goats whiskey and camembert (the kind you use to lure a bear off a mountain)