Nantes 6: Three Short Poems of Varying Relevance

Le Café Porquois Pas?

The woman who, with her husband, owns this café
Sets up the chairs and tables
Out in front;
It is 36 degrees.


For Sebald

Where the hell are you buried?


Le Cathedrale de St. Pierre et St. Paul

Nantes Cathedrale is actually called Le Cathedrale de St. Pierre et St. Paul,
But secularism is the religion of the French
And they are remarkably devoted.
And so Le Cathedrale de St. Pierre et St. Paul is called Nantes Cathedrale,
Which is fine, I suppose,
Unless you are St. Pierre or St. Paul.