Bilingual Poem avec Clichés

“Danse avec moi under the stormy sky”
                                Daniel Lanois

Danse avec moi baby under the stormy sky move your hips like a pro we have left our motos chez les pompiers rue de l’Apocalypse and now we have to go chez le dentiste to take my heart out danse avec moi stay with me chez les pompiers to put out my fire ne me quitte pas dance with me sous la pluie today I found a letter from my landlord et me voilà maintenant dans la rue and the rain keeps falling on my violon sur mon trombone mon saxophone oh baby suis-je donc la mariée who left her groom in Silverspoon suis-je donc la mariée qui pleure under the stormy sky tels les sanglots longs des violons stay with me pour la vie oh baby
 

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Poetry From the March 2010 issue: Correspondences in the Air: International Poetry

Alta IflandAlta Ifland

Alta Ifland was born in Romania and emigrated to the United States in 1991.  Her bilingual book of prose poems (written in French and translated by herself into English), Voice of Ice, was awarded the French Prize Louis Guillaume, and her collection of short stories, Elegy for a Fabulous World, came out in 2009. She lives in Northern California .

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Translated from FrenchFrench by Alta IflandAlta Ifland

Alta Ifland was born in Romania and emigrated to the United States in 1991.  Her bilingual book of prose poems (written in French and translated by herself into English), Voice of Ice, was awarded the French Prize Louis Guillaume, and her collection of short stories, Elegy for a Fabulous World, came out in 2009. She lives in Northern California .

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