Bicycle at Rest

Bicycle at Rest
for Real Le Bel

An it
but special
and mythic, the blue Bobet
bicycle (for Louison
Bobet, 3 time winner
of the Tour de France)
leans against the red
bricks: a dandy,
a cocked French hat, a matinee
idol of a bicycle.
Sure, the mundane chain
and saddle, but what
ghostly motion stirs
against the wall--what
pent-up thrust
in the diamond frame.
Even the pre-
modern pin-
stripes and darts
in the robin egg
blue paint
dash
forward--