Chez jacques prévert / Alexandre ferrere
Working at Prévert's last home,
now a memories' museum.
Sunny, warm, green garden,
birds of joy, cows of meat.
An old woman came to visit,
her voice dejected
by the tide's countdown.
She laughed and wept
in the poet's rooms.
Tears.
Remembrance.
Black and white childhood,
poetry readings
in a distant school,
now accommodations;
A childish soul
drowned
in the sour milk of Time.
She stood in the entry
like a broken clock,
with souvenirs
running down her cheeks,
and broken glass,
in the back of her eyes,
She stood in the entry,
swaying on a strange spider web.
By the French door,
behind her,
were giant flowers
growing, so slowly.
Alexandre Ferrere lives in France. After a Master's degree in Library Sciences and a Master's degree in English Literature at the University of Caen, France, he is now working towards a PhD. on postmodern American poetry.
He wrote a Master's thesis on the poetic influences behind the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, and a comparative study on Allen Ginsberg and Richard Eberhart. His essay on William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg has been published in Beatdom Magazine, and another on Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg had been published in Empty Mirror.