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LES POMMES
Et que faut-il penser
De ces pommes jaunes?
Hier, elles étonnaient, d’attendre ainsi, nues
Après la chute des feuilles,

Aujourd’hui elles charment
Tant leurs épaules
Sont, modestement, soulignées
D’un ourlet de neige.
THE APPLES
And what must we think
Of these yellow apples?
Yesterday, they astonished, waiting like this, naked
After the leaves had fallen,

Today they charm
As their shoulders
Are modestly accented
With an edging of snow.
© 1988, Yves Bonnefoy
From: Début et fin de la neige
Publisher: Mercure de France, Paris, 1988
 
 
 
 
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© Translation: 2007, Sarah Lawson
First published on Poetry International, 2014