March, 2016/April, 2016 Le passé défini Page after French page one for each verb carefully scribed with ruler and pen effortless plus-que-parfait a koan of being Across the aisle to the left the pale knees of Liz G rising into the bell of her pleated plaid skirt And off to the right the elfin mystique of Peg C diaphanous, pale fantasy Every conjugaison memorized long before my surrender to metronomic intercourse and decades further into the temps futur of undreamt subjunctives when I learn from Old Norse that wanton young Freyja could conjugate too.
Martin Ahrens 