For Tourists & Armies

One way to draw France is in scallops:

Dunkirk to Brest,

Brest to Saint-Jean-de-Luz,

The imperceptible stone sag

of certain dolmens

over the Pyrenees between Saint-Jean

& Banyuls-sur-Mer

Then, to Nice

Nice, skirting the Alps to Lauterbourg

From Lauterbourg back

to where you began

For the meticulous,

the additions of Cherbourg, Toulon, &

even Le Havre,

Maybe Givet

Yours is a green diorama

It contains several kilowatts of sun,

a superabundance of flowers

Men dress like they are perpetually

on their way to a funeral

White people,

their splotch-parchment cheeks

All those roast chickens, none with the fat

trimmed from the rump