after Paul Klee
I almost fell off
the red bridge
but the yellow moon
shining in the blue night
said: see that pink tower
with a black roof?
There lives old Uncle Paul
a smart painter who can make
any old thing into a bright
new toy. Knock on the door
he’ll let you in and show you how
to transform dull greys
into a rainbow.
Marie Papier is a French-Swiss poet novelist who is now writing in English. She has published some of her poems in magazines including Arvon/Daily Telegraph, The North, Stand, Agenda, The Lighthouse, and London Southbank Poetry; in anthologies such as Calyx and The Weather Indoors (Bristol Stanza), and smith/doorstop’s The Result Is What You See Today: Poems About Running; and online.