Posted by matt on 9 December 2007
L’Automne
Un cheval s’écroule au milieu d’une allée
Les feuilles tombent sur lui
Notre amour frissone
Et le soleil aussi.
Autumn
A horse collapses in the middle of an alley
Leaves fall on him
Our love trembles
And the sun too.
Translation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Posted by matt on 1 December 2007
Le Droit Chemin
A chaque kilomètre
chaque année
des vieillards au front borné
indiquent aux enfants la route
d’un geste de ciment armé.
The Straight and Narrow Road
At each mile
each year
old men with closed faces
point out the road to children
with gestures of reinforced concrete.
Translation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Photo credit: Cliffs End Farm–Pit Burial by Wessex Archaeology
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