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