La Belle Saison / Summer
Jacques Prévert
translated by Derek Pollard
La Belle Saison
A jeun perdue glacée
Toute seule sans un sou
Une fille de seize ans
Immobile debout
Place de la Concorde
A midi le Quinze Août.
Summer
Hungry lost stricken
All alone without a penny
A girl of sixteen
Standing stock still
Place de la Concorde
Noon August fifteenth.
Derek Pollard is co–author with Derek Henderson of the book Inconsequentia (BlazeVOX). His poems, creative non–fiction, and reviews have appeared in American Book Review, Colorado Review, Diagram III, Drunken Boat, H_ngm_n, Pleiades and Six–Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak. He is assistant editor at Barrow Street Press and at Interim. Derek Pollard is online at TwoDereks.com.
