Mary M. Payne

  The Player, Nice Standing on rue Bavastro I spy a perfect carving of a sea bird poised on the roof of a car as if a giant hood ornament ha...

My Father with his Goose, circa 1985   Gus “See he just bought the one and put it under a bulb and when it hatched it was a  head taller t...

My photo image showing that you can't quite capture the periwinkle sky I Nice with pixels,  Poet’s Club by Mary Payne Having just read...

    Photo by Agence Istra, quartier Libération Libération     In the queue at the tax office I bandy French with the others…  joking and...

 Image by Frenchentree.com   Medium Rare When I was still in high school I got invited by a boy to go on a real date.  These were few as m...

 Storm Alex, Oct 8, 2020, Nice France, Image by Sky News                             Septuagenarian out along the sea,  5am, Nice France S...

  Can a Rose be…  To gaze upon a life of dreams fulfilled to count among the years, but common strife, to be seen guileless but illusio...