The Silent Victim
The weighty sound of the wind is rippling like the waves of an ocean, pushing at the roof and the walls of our shaking house, while water-lashed windows show the wind outside, in the form of horizontal streaks of white. It’s raining bits of ice. The snow-plough guy hasn’t even showed up; probably his contract is up by now, and he’s just as sick of winter as we are now.
I’m thinking “what did we do to **** *** Mother Nature so?”. Then I think “Oh yeah. There’s that.” and I sit still, listening to the healthy rage outside of a world crumbling under the weight of us all.
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François qui fake conduire le bateau (On le voit qu'il est amarré, François!) / Frank faking that he's driving the boat (we can see it's still tied, Frank!)
C'est la 2e fois que je mange dans un Uno. J'ai pas pu m'empêcher de commander la même chose, par contre : poulet farçi (brocolis, épinards, feta, tomates, etc.) et gratiné, avec pommes de terre pilées gratinées avec bacon, et légumes vapeur. François avait un trio églefin, saumon et crevettes. / It was the 2nd time I ate at a Uno. I couldn't resist ordering the same thing, however: gratin stuffed chicken (brocolis, spinach, feta, tomatoes, etc.) with gratin mashed potatoes with bacon, and steamed veggies. Frank had a trio of haddock, salmon and shrimp.
Orléane is now... 
Xavier is now...
The sweet poetry of it all is that angry as it seems, the world will hardly notice us when we’re gone, and in less than the blink of a cosmic eye all evidence of the impact we had here will be erased.
That said, I’m really happy that it’s sunny and warm here today. Hoping for good weather for you. Just not at the expense of ours!
Woah. C’était beau. Mais ça disait tellement quelque chose de terrifiant. Mais c’était beau. J’ai hâte que tu en sortes un livre. Bordel. Je ne me souvenais pas que t’écrivais bien comme ça. Ben j’savais que t’écrivais bien mais j’avais rien lu de récent. Tu devrais profiter de ton congé de maternité, ma soeur.
Beautifully stated, Emilie. Sad that it’s so often the rotten and the trying that bring out the poetry.
ouah!