The Poet Laureate of Jones Street

The leaves are beautiful

red, yellow, orange
and rust-brown.

I photograph them
bury them in an album.

Red, yellow, orange
and rust brown

they are dying
becoming memories

some of them
still green.
…………………..

Les feuilles sont belles

rouges, jaunes, oranges
et rouille.

J’en fais des photos
les enterre dans un album.

Rouges, jaunes, oranges
et rouille

elles meurent
deviennent des souvenirs

certaines
encore vertes.

………………..

2006. Traduction: Françoise Parouty