It is the madeleine that gives him away./
Well, that and the silk cravat/
pinned like a butterfly to his stiff white collar.
Mark Evan Chimsky is a Portland, Maine-based poet and playwright. His poetry and essays have appeared in Poetry for Ukraine, The Jewish Literary Journal, Kind Over Matter, Bullets into Bells, Wild Violet, The Maine Sunday Telegram, The Oakland Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Xanadu, Mississippi Review, The Cincinnati Judaica Review, and The Three Rivers Poetry Journal. Upcoming poetry will be appearing in The Healing Muse and The Sunlight Press. He is also a recipient of the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award as New/Emerging Poet.
It is the madeleine that gives him away./
Well, that and the silk cravat/
pinned like a butterfly to his stiff white collar.