Small Windows

We rode by catching The Thinker in France,

one small window of time, recklessly close.

The Vatican has many small windows

when in Rome, we’d stood by, long in advance.

With thousands, we'd waited to get a glance

of Pope Francis giving blessed repose.

We rode by catching The Thinker in France,

one small window of time, recklessly close.

Rodin’s famed sculpture exposed quite by chance,

from the bus, our eyes fixed on his well-known pose.

In Rome, so far-away, the pope? who knows?

But in Paris no doubt, no looks askance,

We rode by catching The Thinker in France,