Love and Onions
Love can exist in poverty.
The summer that we spent together
We subsisted on the cheapest foods.
The foods that grew in plentitude.
Tomatoes and onions
And tinned sardines.
Pomegrenates the neighbours gave.
We made do with piss-poor wine
And simple things
Like love was, before words.
He was a rare good man.
And I considered marrying him
Not because I was in love
But because [...]

LE JARDIN DES OUBLIES
Dans le jardin de temps pérdu
Je retrouverai
Les choses precieuses et oubliées.
L’innocence.
Mon enfance.
Les comptes de fées.
Les chaussetes qui s’enfuiyait
Dans le lavage.
Les terres imaginées.
Mon père.