Il pleure dans mon cœur comme il pleut sur la ville The lovely, easy lines (they are both of those things). Walking abroad in his twentieth year was when he …
- by Don ColesDon Coles Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka, Updated 10:25, Apr. 10, 2020 | Published 7:00, Feb. 16, 2015This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current.
Contributors illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
Il pleure dans mon cœur
comme il pleut sur la ville
The lovely, easy lines
(they are both of those things).
Walking abroad in his twentieth year
was when he first noticed them,
and tested them aloud
in private moments.
Liking the rhyme of their pleure and cœur.
Also the flow of their pleut and pleure.
Not guessing how long
they would stay. Nor that they
would be forgotten for years,
and remembered as often.
And it’s he who, again now,
is here in his youth and naïveté, lifting
his eyes from the page and
turning his face toward me.
Kellen Hatanaka published his second children’s book, Drive: A Look at Roadside Opposites, in 2015.
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